If it be so, that our lives ought so [to be spent by us, as to be only a journey toward heaven], how ill do they improve their lives that spend them in traveling towards hell.
Some men spend their whole lives, from their infancy to their dying day, in going down the broad way to destruction. They don't only draw nearer to hell in time, but they every day grow more and more ripe for destruction; they are more assimilated to the inhabitants of the infernal world.
While others press forward in the straight and narrow way to life, towards Zion, and laboriously travel up the hill against the inclination and tendency of the flesh, these run with a swift career down towards the valley of eternal death, towards the lake of fire, towards the bottomless pit.
The True Christian's Life a Journey Towards Heaven
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