Order your conduct right
To conclude. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, not only by this agony of soul, of conviction, of sorrow, of shame, of desire, of fear, of unceasing prayer, but likewise by ordering your conduct right (Psalm 50:23), by walking with all your strength in all the ways of God: the way of innocence, of piety, and of mercy. Abstain from all appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22): do all possible good to all men: deny yourself, your own will, in all things, and take up your cross daily. Be ready to cut off your right hand, to pluck out your right eye and cast it from you: to suffer the loss of goods, friends, health, all things on earth, so you may enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1771 text
6. To conclude. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, not only by this agony of soul, of conviction, of sorrow, of shame, of desire, of fear, of unceasing prayer, but likewise by ordering thy conversation right, by walking with all thy strength, in all the ways of God, the way of innocence, of piety and of mercy. Abstain from all appearance of evil: do all possible good to all men: deny thyself, thy own will, in all things, and take up thy cross daily. Be ready to cut off thy right hand, to pluck out thy right eye and cast it from thee: to suffer the loss of goods, friends, health, all things on earth, so thou mayst enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Sermon 31 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:13-14.
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