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 that go in thereat ; because strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The Works ... - Page 365de Andrew Fuller - 1824Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| John Witherspoon - 1812 - 214 pages
...for wide " is the gate, and broad is the way that leadetu " to destruction, and many there be which go in " thereat : Because strait is the gate, and...the way that leadeth unto life, and few there »' be that find it." Matt. vii. 13, 14. And as none can attend the stage, but those in higher life, and more... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pages
...gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many go in thereat ; but that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it, Mat. vii. 12, 13. * Many are called, but few are chosen.' So that Christ did not offer... | |
| Edward Williams - 1812 - 582 pages
...and that " many are they that go in thereat;" and, on the other hand, that in fact, " straight is the gate and narrow is, the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." On any scheme of thought whatever, the fact is the same. The question then returns to... | |
| John Murray - 1812 - 426 pages
...; no man can know the things of God but by the spirit of God. It is elsewhere said, "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Few indeed ; if thou wouldst enter into life keep the commandments. No man, save the... | |
| J S. Pipe - 1813 - 646 pages
...eternally. 2. The road leading to it. — Our Lord, describing it, inforuis us that " Strait ii the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." By this way we are to understand the path of holiness, without walking in which no man... | |
| John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and shall find pasture." Secondly, Narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. What are we to understand by this way ? Our Saviour himself has answered this question.... | |
| 1813 - 1368 pages
...wonderful works may indeed be done through our agency,— yet one thing, the m;iin thing, may be wanting. " .Not every one that saith, Lord ! Lord ! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that donth the will of my Father, which i» in. heaven." The wearing FATHER reformed... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 pages
...be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way. which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father... | |
| William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...wide is the gate, '*and broad is the way which leadeth to destruction, B " and many there be which go in thereat : because " strait is the gate, and...the way that leadeth " unto life, and few there be that find it." Is it possible, however, to fall into another extreme, and to draw an unwarrantable... | |
| William Sherlock - 1814 - 298 pages
...9, 10. when our Savior expressly tells us, that it is only the doers of the word are blessed; that not every one that saith Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven; Mattvii. 21. that as for all... | |
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