Striving to Enter in at the Strait Gate Explain'd and Inculcated: And the Connexion of Salvation Therewith

by Jonathan Mayhew

Excerpt from Striving to Enter in at the Strait Gate Explain'd and Inculcated

But enough has been (aid to explain the phrafeology,,and general fcope of this precept. In farther difeourfing upon the fubjeé't, it is pro pofed, by divine aflillance, more particularly to reprcfent to you,. What this firiving implies in It The fatal eonfequences of not firiving together with the happinefs and glory which will accrue to us, if we firive effectually, or fo as finally to enter in at the {trait gate And lallly, What eon nexion there is, according to the word of God, between firiving in the manner we may and ought to do, and actually obtaining what we aim at therein, the falvation of our fouls. It is propofed to enlarge much more upon the lalt of thefe points, than upon any of the others. In the firll place it will be proper.

94 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2013

About the author

Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720 – July 9, 1766) was a noted American minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts. He coined the phrase "No taxation without representation."