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world, but they land in everlasting peace and happiness beyond death and the grave. "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace," Psalm, xxxvii. 37. Those who are made free from sin, and become servants to God. have their fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life, Rom. vi. 22. It is the way, or path, which leads to life in the presence of God, where there is fulness of joy, and pleasures for evermore, Psalm, xvi. 11. Thus I have briefly illustrated the proposition in our text, and shall now
III. Answer a few objections
1. It is objected that “Christ declares the gate is strait, and the way narrow that leadeth unto life, how then can it be a way of pleasantness and peace?" Matt. vii. 3, 14. To which I answer, that this straitness and narrowness arises not from any thing in the nature of the way itself, but from something about ourselves which is very opposite to that way; such as our ignorance, unbelief, pride, self-righteousness, love of this present world, &c. Were we freed from these things, we should walk at liberty, and find the way full of pleasantness and peace.
