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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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parable reached one of the Apostles will in Gods day be counted fit for nothing but to be troden down as the mire in the streets oh the slothful the naked and unsavory professors how will they be rejected of God and his Christ in the judgment look to it professors Ninthly The parable of the tare also giveth countenance to this truth for though it be said the field is the world yet it is said the tares were sown even in the Church And while men slept the enemy come and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way Matt. 13. 24 25. Obj. But some may object the tares might be sowed in the world among the wheat though not in the Churches Answer But Christ by expounding this parable tells us the tares were sown in his kingdom the tares that is the children of the devil ver 30. 39. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it be in the end of this world The son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquitie and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth ver 40. 41. 42. 43. look to it professors Tenthly the parable of the ten virgins also suiteth our purpose them ten are called the kingdom of heaven Ma●t 25. 1. that is the Church of Christ the visible rightly-constituted Church of Christ for they went all out of the world had all lamps and all went forth to meet the bridegroom yet behold what an overthrow the one half of them met with at the gate of heaven they were shut out bid to depart and Christ told them he did not kn●w them ver 10 11. tremble professors pray professors Eleventhly the parable of the not that was cast into the sea Matt. 13. 41. 42. that also counte 〈…〉 eth this truth the substance of that parable is to shew that souls may be gathered by the Gospel there compared to a net may be kept in that net drown to shore to the worlds end by that net and yet may th●n prove bad fishes and be ca● away the parable runs thus The Kingdome of heaven the Gospel is like u 〈…〉 a net which was cast into the sea the world and gathered of every k●●d good and bad which whe● it was full they drew it to sh●re to the end of the world and sat down in judgment and gathered the good into vessels and cast the bad away some bad fishes nay I doubt a great many will be ●ound in the net of the Gospel at the day of Judgment watch and be sober professors Twelfthly and many shall come from the east and from the west and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdome of heaven and the children of the kingdom shall be cast out Matt. 8. 12. The children of the kingdom whose priviledges were said to be these to whom pertained the Adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promise Rom. 9. 4. I take liberty to harp the more upon the first Church because that that happened to them hapned as tipes and examples intimating there is ground to think that things of as dreadful a nature are to happen among the Church of the gentiles 1 Cor. 10. 11. 12. neither indeed have the gentile-Churches security from God that there shall not as dreadful things happen to them And concerning this very thing sufficient caution is given to us also 1 Cor. 6. 9. 10. Gal. 5. 19. 20. 21. Ephes. 5. 3. 4. 5. 6. Phil. 3. 10. 19. 2. Thes. 2. 11. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 20. 21. 2 Heb. 6. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. chap. 10. 26. 27. 28. 2 Pet. 2. chap. 3. 1 Joh. 5. 10. Revel 2. 20. 21. 22. Thirteenthly the parable of the true vine and its branches confirm what I have said Joh. 15. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. By the vine there I understand Christ Christ as head by the branches I understand his Church some of these branches proved fruitless cast-aways were in time cast out of the Church were gathered by men and burned Fourteenthly and Lastly I will come to particular instances 1. The twelve had a devil among them Ioh. 6. 70. 2. Ananias and Saphira were in the Church of Jerusalem Acts. 5. 3. Simon Magus was among them at Samaria Acts. 8. 4. Among the Church of Corinth were them that had not the knowledg of God 1 Cor 15. 5. Faul tells the Galatians false brethren crept in unawares and so does the Apostle Jude and yet they were as quick-sighted to see as any now adays Gala. 2. Jude 3. 4. 6. The Church in Sardis had but a few names in her to whom the kingdom of heaven belonged Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy 7. As for the Church of the Laodiceans it is called a wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Rev. 3. So that put all things together and I may boldly say as I also have said already That among the multitude of them that shall be damned professors will make a considerable party or to speak in the words of the observation when men have put in all the claim they can for heaven but few will have it for their inheritance I will now shew you some reasons of the point besides those five that I shewed you before But first I will shew you why the poor carnall ignorant world miss of heaven and then why the knowing professors miss of it also First the poor carnal ignorant world miss of heaven even because they love their sins and cannot part with them men love darkness rather then light because their deeds be evil Joh. 3. the poor ignorant world miss of heaven because they are enemies in their minds to God his word and holyness They all must be damned who take pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes. 2. 10. 11. 12. The poor ignorant world miss of heaven because they stop their ears against convictions and refuse to come when God cals because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but have set at nought all my counsels and would none of my reproofs I also will laugh at your calamities and mock when your fear cometh as desolution and your destruction like a whirlwinde when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall you call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but shall not finde me Pro. 1. 24. 25 26. 27. 28. Secondly the poor ignorant world miss of heaven because the God of this world hath blinded their eyes that they can neither see the evil and damnable state they are in at present nor the way to get out of it neither do they see the beauty of Jesus Christ nor how