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A30209 The strait gate, or, Great difficulty of going to Heaven plainly proving by the Scriptures that not only the rude and profane, but many great professors will come short of that Kingdom / by John Bunyan. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1676 (1676) Wing B5600; ESTC R26567 52,935 156

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willing he is to save poor sinners 2 Cor. 4. 2. 3. Thirdly the poor ignorant world miss of heaven because they putt off and defer coming to Christ until the time of Gods patience and grace is over some indeed are resolved never to come but some again say we will come hereafter and so it comes to pass that because God called and they did not hear so they shall cry and I will not hear saith the Lord. Zech. 7. 11. 12. 13. Fourthly the poor ignorant world miss of heaven because they have false apprehensions of Gods mercy they say in their hearts we shall have peace though we walk in the imagination of our heart to add drunkenness to thirst but what saith the word the Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoak against that man and all the curses that are written in this book shall be upon him and God shall blot out his name from under heaven Dent. 29. 19 20 21. Fifthly the poor ignorant world miss of heaven because they make light of the Gospel that offereth mercy to them freely and because they lean upon their own good meanings and thinkings and doings Matt. 22. 1 2 3 4 5. Rom. 9. 30 31. Sixthly The poor carnal world miss of heaven because by unbelief which reigns in them they are kept for ever from being cloathed with Christs righteousness and from washing in his blood without which there is neither remission of sin nor justification But to pass these till anon I come in the next place to shew you some reasons why the professor falls short of heaven First In the general they rest in things below special grace as in awakenings that are not special in repentance that is not special in faith that is not special c. and a little to run the parallel betwixt the one and the other that if God will you may see and escape 1. Have they that shall be saved awakenings about their ●●are by nature so have they that shall be damned they that never go to heaven may see much of sin and of the wrath of God due thereto this had Cain and Judas and yet they came short of the kingdom Gen. 4. Matt. 27. 4. The saved have convictions in order to their eternal life but the others convictions are not so the convictions of the one doth drive them sincerly to Christ the convictions of the other doth drive them to the law and the law to desperation at last 2. There are also convictions that shew a man his necessity of Christ but wanting grace to lay hold effectually on Christ they joyn the law also with the Savior and so perish or through despair of obtaining the power of grace they rest in the notions and profession of grace and so perish 3. There is a repentance that will not save a repentance to be repented of and a repentance to salvation not to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 10. yet so great a similitude and likeness there is betwixt the one and the other that most times the wrong is taken for the right and through this mistake professors perish As 1. In saving repentance there will be an acknowledgement of sin and one that hath the other repentance may acknowledg his sins also Matt. 27. 4. 2. In saving repentance there is a crying out under sin but one that hath the other repentance may cry out under sin also Gen. 4. 13. 3. In saving repentance there will be humiliation for sin and one that hath the other repentance may humble himself also 1 King 21. 29. 4. Saving repentance is attended with self-loathing but he that hath the other repentance may have loathing of sin too 2 Pet. 2. 22. a loathing of sin because it is sin that he cannot have but a loathing of sin because i● is offensive to him that he may have the dog doth not loath that which troubleth his stomach because it is there but because it troubleth him when it has done troubling of him he can turn to it again and li●k it up as before it troubled him 5. Saving repentance is attended with prayers and tears but he that hath none but the other repentance may have prayers and tears also Gen. 27. 34 35. Heb. 12. 14 15 16. 6. In saving repentance there is fear and reverence of the word and Ministers that bring it but this may be also where there is none but the repentance that is not saving for Herod feared John knowing that he was a just man and holy and observed him when he heard him he did many things and heard him gladly Mark 6. ●0 7. Saving repentance makes a mans heart very tender of doing any thing against the word of God But Balaam could say If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord Numb 24. 13. Behold then how far a man may go in repentance and yet be short of that which is called repentance unto salvation not to be repented of 1. He may be awakened 2. he may acknowledge his sin 3. he may cry out under the burden of sin 4. he may have humility for it 5. he may loath it 6. may have prayers and tears against it 7. may delight to do many things of God 8. may be afraid of sinning against him and after all this may perish for want of saving repentance Secondly Have they that shall be saved faith why they that shall not be saved may have faith also Yea a faith in many things so like the faith that saveth that they can hardly be distinguished though they differ both in root and branch to come to particulars 1. Saving faith hath Christ for its object and so may the faith have that is not saving those very Jews of whom it is said they believed on Christ Christ tells them and that after their believing you are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do Jo. 8. from ● 30. to v 44 2. Saving faith is wrought by the word of God and so may the faith be that is not saving Luk. 3. 13. 3. Saving faith looks for justification without works and so may a faith do that is not saving Jam. 2. 18. 4. Saving faith will sanctifie and purify the heart and the faith that is not saving may work a man off from the pollutions of the world as it did Judas and Demas and others see 2 Pet. 2. 5. Saving faith will give a man tasts of the world to come and also joy by them tasts and so will the faith do that is not saving Heb. 6. 4. 5. Luk. 8. 13. 6. Saving faith will help a man if called thereto to give his body to be burned for his religion and so will the faith do to that is not saving 1 Cor. 13. 1. 2. 3. 4. 7. Saving faith will help a man to look for an inheritance in the world to come and that may