Acacia John Bunyan

T H E
Heavenly Footman

O R,
A description of the man that gets to Heaven; together with the way
he runs in, the marks he goes by; also, some
D I R E C T I O N S
how to run so as to obtain.With an epistle to all the
slothful and careless people.


By J O H N.B U N Y A N.


1698.


[I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TEXT.]

The doctrine is this: THEY THAT WILL HAVE HEAVEN, MUST RUN FOR IT; I say, they that will have heaven, they must run for it. I beseech you to heed it well. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run ye. The prize is heaven, and if you will have it, you must run for it. You have another scripture for this in the 12th of the Hebrews, the 1st, 2d, and 3rd verses: Wherefore seeing we also, saith the apostle, are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. And LET US RUN, saith he. Again, saith Paul, I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, so fight I, &c.



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AN EPISTLE TO ALL THE SLOTHFUL AND CARELESS PEOPLE.


THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN.

[I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TEXT.]

[II. THE WORD RUN OPENED.]

[III. SEVERAL REASONS FOR CLEARING THIS DOCTRINE.]

[IV. NINE DIRECTIONS HOW TO RUN]

[V. NINE MOTIVES TO URGE US ON IN THE WAY.]

[VI. NINE USES OF THIS SUBJECT.]

VII. PROVOCATION. [TO RUN WITH THE FOREMOST.]

[VIII. A SHORT EXPOSTULATION.]



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