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T H E By J O H N.B U N Y A N. 1698. |
[I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TEXT.]
he doctrine is this: THEY THAT WILL HAVE HEAVEN, MUST RUN FOR
IT; I say, they that will have heaven, they must run for it. I beseech you to heed
it well. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the
prize? So run ye. The prize is heaven, and if you will have it, you must run for
it. You have another scripture for this in the 12th of the Hebrews, the 1st, 2d,
and 3rd verses: Wherefore seeing we also, saith the apostle, are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before
us. And LET US RUN, saith he. Again, saith Paul, I therefore so run, not as uncertainly,
so fight I, &c.
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