8 Aug 1815

Jug True

Proleg

II. Principal

Strait Gate Parable

(2)

For the giving admission to the preferred and favoured few, strait of course is the aperture of the gate that will suffice for giving entrance within any given span of time in comparison of that which in the same span of time will be necessary to give entrance to the numerous and undistinguished multitude. This in the temporal kingdom which at the best was but a narrow theatre and that to be filled in any part of it (by performers) by Manager’s orders. But the spiritual kingdom—how could that with its necessary exactness[?] and restrictions apply to this spiritual kingdom in which there is at all times was room for all, room for as many as will, now and at all times?

Weeping and gnashing of teeth—yes—out of regret and spite at the thoughts of the disappointment produced to each man by his own neglect in not putting in for a situation under the new kingly government time enough. The unfit condition considered of the wilfully blind deaf, and hard hearted sinners who will have been left on the outside of the gate with the burthen of their sins on their heads is not here cause sufficient for weeping and gnashing of teeth? the place of everlasting torments is it the only place in which a scene of weeping and gnashing of teeth is visible? was it not from the observation of temporal weeping and gnashing of teeth that the spiritual pictures of the operation thus denominated were delineated?