Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XI · §25 · John Wesley

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It may appear, upon a transient view of these words, that their delaying to seek at all, rather than their manner of seeking, was the reason why they were not able to enter in. But it comes in effect to the same thing. They were therefore commanded to depart because they had been workers of iniquity, because they had walked in the broad road: in other words, because they had not agonized to enter in at the strait gate. Probably they did seek before the door was shut, but that did not suffice. And they did strive after the door was shut. But then it was too late.

1771 text

3. It may appear, upon a transient view of these words, that their delaying to seek at all, rather than their manner of seeking, was the reason why they were not able to enter in. But it comes, in effect, to the same thing. They were therefore commanded to depart, because they had been workers of iniquity, because they had walked in the broad road: in other words, because they had not agonized to enter in at the strait gate. Probably they did seek, before the door was shut: but that did not suffice. And they did strive, after the door was shut. But then it was too late.

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The eleventh sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 7:13-14: the strait gate and the narrow way, and why so few find it.

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Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 31 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:13-14.

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