274 t4 Commentary up®n the Godet Chap,7. pains till they fweat and faint, to get through this {trait gate, this perplext way, as unpleafant to nature, as the way to Niniveh was to Ione , as rough and rugged as that was to the Church, Hof. 2.6. as little traced and trod, as the high-waits to Sion. hill, Lama. which were over-grown with graffe, becaufe few or none carne to the folemn feafts. 4ndfe* therebe that finde it ] So hard is it to hit, and as dan. gerous to miffe. Many by-waies there are ( there are fo many high- wayes to hell )bides false-guides and back- biafles not a few, to divert us. The devil with his falle directions leading men hood- winkt tohell, as Elifhadid the Syrians toSamaria. The world irritamerta terricuhvrenta. with it's allurements and a f frighrments : Oh how hardly fcape F Pcc.ay, we through the corruptions that are in the world through luff ! Our own hearts, how heavy are they to be drawn this way ! bear comes not fo unwillingly to the flake. It goes hard witha man whenhe mutt peremptorilydeny himfelf ; when he muff de- Tn. n a" n all un odline e andworldly hefts, as dear unto him as himfeif, Ti[.t,ña. i g .Íi 7 . , and betytd to live holily, righteoufly and foberly in this prefent world ; making confcienceof thofe duties which the molt mens hearts rife at, as tobe hot in religion,fèrvent in fpirit, precifè in his whole courfe,confcientious and cautelous of the leafs fin &c. Hea- ven is a finely pallace, with a narrow portail, hence fo few enter it. The proud man with his high looks cannot floope to it. The ambitious with his.afpiring thoughts cannot bend to it. Thema- licious is fwollen too big for it. The covetous with his loadof thick clay cannot get through it. The drunkard with his rotten lungs : theadulterer with his wafted loines, can have no admit- tance into it. Therecan in nowife enter any thing filthy, or loath- 7sd'emuy4`'` forme abhominable or detdlable, which a man would abhorre ¡pod prow > > ft.1itater7, ne for the ill favour, (as the word fignifieth, Reve.21.27. ) fuch as a. o .. onaverfa for the bafencire thereof cannot bewell named, it is fo noyfome ro cur Ld'4ev, the fen`es. A(loon may th, femen finde fiíhts fwimrning in a wood, pedo. , fruit -trees growing in the fea, heaven in hell, as enter into the b{traìt gate, not living ftrii sly. Which becaufe few can frame to, but deride thole that do ( counting and calling them as the Spa. H yGGrog' niards are laid to do the Portugal's, pocos y locos fewand foolifh ) t`' '' therefore few are faxed. Our Saviour callethhis flock a little lit- tie fiocke, two diminutives, Lull . 1 2.42. ftanding ( as that fmall ''P' aoY army of Ifrael in Ahahs time) like two little flacks ofkds, when the wicked, (as thofè. Syrians then) fid the eeuntrey. Was is nos.
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