 Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...  Gathered clusters from Scripture pages - Page 7by lady Elizabeth Reid Hope - 1880Full view - About this book
 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 514 pages
...of the catechism, wherein the Fathers seem to have forgotten the words of our Saviour, Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it, Matt. vii. 14. And that therefore he hath appointed the sacrament of penance, as a help... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1827 - 252 pages
...necessary, for it is written, " Without holiness no man shall sec the Lord;1' and again," Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." " Oh then, I could not read such things, for they would make me melancholy and miserable.''... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...carry them in his bosom, and shall eently lead those that are with young. MAT. vii. 14: Strait is me gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it. JOHN, x. 27, 28: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me : and I... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...and the Omega ; the beginning and ending of all our desires and affections. О ! how strait is the gate and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life ; and few there be that find it. Lord, let thy good Spirit lead me forth into the land of uprightness. Hold thou me up,... | |
 | Edward Irving - Incarnation - 1828 - 504 pages
...and from the whole drift of the New Testament. " Many are called, but few chosen." " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." And, even in the church, both Christ and his Apostles testified of an apostasy that... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 560 pages
...when Christ is calling on you " to strive to enter in at the straight gate," and assuring you " that straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life," and that " wide is the gate and broad is the way which leadeth unto destruction." Is it a time to bustle,... | |
 | Edward Craig - Sermons, English - 1828 - 378 pages
...men in general may think or say, or whatever may be their habits, the Saviour says, " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it :" — " Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for many shall seek to enter in, and... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1828 - 328 pages
...that looks so fair, And seek thy hetter portion there." IOTA. MATTHEW Vli. 14. " Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there he that find it." The narrow path that leads to God Is found where few repair , Unlike the road so... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...when we are rebuked of him. The evils to be avoided in all these cases come so near together, that "narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Let us take this general reflection, and apply it to a particular case. Our Lord said... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1881 - 654 pages
...entered he felt it could not be the house of God because there were so many present, and '' Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." When he looked at me he felt sure that I was unsound, for I should not look so cheerful... | |
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