 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...  The Friendly Visitor - Page 92edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...have mercy upon him ; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon, Isa. Iv. 6, 7. Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and «hall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye... | |
 | William BISHOP (Rector of Ufton Nervet.) - 1825 - 364 pages
...7%en said on« wnto hirn, Lord, are there few - that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many? I say unto you, will seek to enter ira, and shall not be able. * ' . CHRIST, we are here taught, forbids us to indulge a vain curiosity,... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1825 - 536 pages
...seeketh, findeth : and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. — Matt. vii. 7, 3. Strive to enter in at the strait gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek tb enter in, and shall uot be able. — Luke xxii. 24. SOME have supposed a difference in the latter... | |
 | David Russell - 1825 - 372 pages
...used to enforce the exhortation of our Lord ; to " strive to enter in at the strait gate;" namely, " For many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Luke xiii 24. But there are two considerations which show that they mistake the meaning... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1825 - 742 pages
...their not being able to enter in, in the words which immediately follow these. For after he had said, " Many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able," he subjoins, " When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door,... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved ? And he said unto them, 24 Strive to enter he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye ca wek to enter in, and shall not be able. 25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...you think to get heaven without diligence? "Strive to enter in at the strait gate,"saith our Lord, " for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Sluggish seekers are final losers. " Work out your own salvation : labour not for the... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...Then said one unto him ; Lord, are there few that be saved ? And he said unto them ; Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin... | |
 | Henry March - 1827 - 374 pages
...him at once to that which was of personal concern and immediate necessity, saying, " Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." So, also, in the case of Peter, who, indulging in a vain and unprofitable curiosity in... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1827 - 538 pages
...Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved ? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." And verily, what greater encouragement can we have, than to consider, that though there... | |
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