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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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8 14. Heb. 8. But this is not all the saved are compared to a lillie among thorns to shew you that they are but few in the world to shew you that they are few and rare for as Christ compares her to a lillie among thorns so she compares him to an apple-tree among the tres of the wood which is rare and scarce not common Thirdly they that are saved are called but one of many for though there be threescore queens and fourscore concubines and virgins without number yet my love saith Christ is but one my undesiled is but one Song 6. 8. 9. according to that of Jeremiah I will take you one of a city Ier. 3. That saying of Paul is much like this know you not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the prize 1 Cor. 9. 24. but one that is few of many few of them that run for he is not here comparing them that run with them that sit still but with them that run some run and lose some run and win they that run and win are few in comparison of them that run and lose They that run in a race run all but one receives the prise let there then be threescore queens and fourscore concubines and virgins without number yet the saved are but few Fourthly they that are the saved are compared to the gleaning after the vintage is in wo is me said the Church for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruit as the grape gleanings after the vintage is in Mich. 7. 1. The gleanings what 's the gleanings to the whole crop and yet you here see to the gleanings are the saved compared 't is the devil and sin that carry away the cart-loads while Christ and his ministers come after a gleaning But the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim are better then the vintage of Abiezer Jud. 8. Them that Christ and his ministers glean up and binde up in the bundle of life are better then the loads that go the other way you know it is often the cry of the poor in harvest poor gleaning poor gleaning And the rainisters of the Gospel they also cry Lord who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed Isa. 53 1. When the prophet speaks of the saved under this metaphor of gleaning how doth he amplify the matter Gleaning grapes shall be left says he two or three berries in the top of the upper most bough four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof saith the Lord. Isa. 17. 6. Thus you see what gleaning is left in the vineyard after the vintage is in two or three here four or five there Alas they that shall be saved when the devil and hell have had their due they will be but as the gleaning they will be but few they that go to hell go thither in clusters but the saved go not so to heaven Matt. 13. 30. Mich. 7. wherefore when the prophet speaketh of the saved he saith there is no cluster but when he speaketh of the damned he saith they are gathered by clusters Revel 14. 18. 19. O sinners but few will be saved O professors but few will be saved Fifthly they that shall be saved are compared to jewels And they shall be mine saith the Lord in the day that I make up my jewels Malachi 3. 13. Jewels you know are rare things things that are not found in every house Jewels will lie in little room being few and small though lumber takes up much In almost every house you may find brass and iron and lead and in every place you may finde hypocritical professors but the saved are not these common things they are Gods peculiar treasure Psal. 35. 4. wherefore Paul distinguisheth betwixt the lumber and the treasure in the house there is saith he in a great house not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of wood and of earth and some to honour and some to dishonour 2. Tim. 2. 20 here is a word for wooden and earthy professors the jewels and treasure are vessels to honor they of wood earth are vessels of dishonour that is vessels for destruction Rom. 9. 21. Sixthly they that shall be saved are compared to a remnant except the Lord had left in us a very small remnant we should have been as Sodom and should have been like unto Gomorrah Isa. 1. 9. A remnant a small remnant a very small remnant O how doth the holy Ghost word it and all to shew you how few shall be saved every one knows what a remnant is but this is a small remnant a very small remnant So again sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise ye and say O Lord save thy people the remnant of Israel Jer. 31. 7. What shall I say the saved are often in Scripture called a remnant E●r 9. 8. 14. Isa. 10. 20 21 22. chap. 11. 11 16. Ier. 23. 3. Ioel 2. 32. But what 's a remnant to the whole piece what 's a remnant of people to the whole kingdom or what 's a remnant of wheat to the whole harvest Eightly the saved are compared to the tithe or tenth part wherefore when God sendeth the prophet to make the hearts of the people fat their ears dull and to shut their eyes The prophet asketh how long to which God answereth until the cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses with ut man and the land be utterly desolute and the Lord have removed man far away and there be a great forsaking in the middest of the land but yet as God saith in another place I will not make a full end in it shall be a tenth so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof Isae 6. 10. 11. 12. 13. but what 's a tenth what 's one in ten and yet so speaks the holy Ghost when he speaks of the holy seed of those that was to be reserved from the Judgment and observe it the fatning and blinding of the rest it was to their everlasting destruction and so both Christ and Paul expounds it often in the new Testament Matt. 13. 14. 15. Mar. 4. 12. Luk. 8. 10. Joh. 12. 40. Acts. 28. 26. Rom. 11. 8. So that those that are reserved from them that perish will be very few one in ten A tenth shall return so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof I shall not add more generals at this time I pray God that the world be not offended at these but without doubt but few of them that shall put in their claim for heaven will have it for their inheritance which will yet further appear in the reading of that which follows Secondly therefore I come more particularly to shew you that but few will be saved I say but few of professors themselves will be saved for that is the truth that the text doth more directly look at and defend Give me therefore thy hand good