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SERMON XXXI.
UPON OUR LORD'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
Discourse XI.
Matt. vii. 13, 14.
Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
1.Our Lord having warned us of the dangers, which easily beset us at our first entrance upon real religion, the hindrances which naturally arise from within, from the wickedness of our own hearts: now proceeds to apprize us of the hindrances from without, particularly ill example and ill advice. By one or the other of these, thousands who once ran well, have drawn back unto perdition: yea, many of those who were not novices in religion, who had made some progress in righteousness. His caution therefore
