XV. The ftrait and narrow, with the broad and wide Way. TWO Paths there are thro' which all Mor tals go, . This leads to Bliss, and that to endless Wo; Leads to the Confines of Eternal Day; For Heav'n and Holy Souls, and God himself is there. X V. St. MATTH. Chap. VII. Ver. 13,14. 25. 13. Enter je in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to deftruction, and many there be which go in there at : 14. Because trait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. XVI. The Wife and the Foolish Builders. WHO hears attentive and my Word obeys, He's like the Man that firm Foundations lays On a ftrong Rock, whofe Building storms defies, Tho' Rain defcends, and angry Billows rise. But who at Wisdom's facred Gates appears, And hears the Word of Life, but only hears, Shall to that foolish Builder be compar'd, Who with vaft Cost, a stately Palace rear d. Fair to the Sight, and towring to the Sky, But on loose Sands its faithless Walls rely. See how the Heav'ns with Clouds and Tempefts frown! What Cataracts of Rain come pouring down! How fell the muftring Waves flow, how high they And fap the falfe Foundations from below; Till with a Crack the Walls come tumbling.o're, And spread the faithless Sands whereon they stood before. XVI. St. MATTH. Chap. VII. Ver. 24,25, 26, 27. 3 24. I will liken him unto a wife man, which built his houfe upon a rock. 25. And the rain defeended, &c. 26. And every one that heareth thefe Sayings of mine, and doth them not, fhall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon the fand: 27. And the rain defcended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell, and great was the fall of it. XVII Chrift cleanfes the Leper. Rom the green Hill defcending, compafs'd' round With wondring Crowds, a Leprous Wretch he found All crufted o're with Ulcers, on the Ground: O! if a Wretch like me may fue and speed, Our Saviour with mild Pity in his Eyes, Thy Faith hath conquer'd, and thy Grant is feal'd, |