 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 500 pages
...receive for my teacher and master, particularly as one who told me beforehand, that ' strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,' and who asked, ' when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth ?' Thus... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 566 pages
...the strait gate:' and again, Matt. vii. 14, ' Enter ye in at the strait gate : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life ; and few there be that find it.' The gate is at the head of the way, leading to the house, into which those who enter... | |
 | Schoolboy - 1824 - 138 pages
...broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat : But strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matt. vii. 13, 14. Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many will seek to enter... | |
 | Family prayers - 1824 - 128 pages
...may we earnestly seek to have our treasure and our hearts in Heaven". • Matt. vi. 21. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find itT. ' Ch. vii. 14. O let us not be excluded from it. Let us not go through that wide gate... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 570 pages
...better you had never claimed acquaintance with it, or officiously drawn your sword in the defence of it. Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doth the will of my Father, says Christ, who is in heaven. Many, he adds, will... | |
 | Charles Richard Sumner - 1824 - 474 pages
...entertain hopes which the course of events would not finally justify. He told them without disguise, that narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be thatjind it, and that many were called, but few chosen •". It is true he promised his disciples that... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1824
...these things as I have done." — " Mrould our blessed Saviour himself have said (continued Mr. W.) 'narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,' if every careless sinner was in the path which leads to heaven ? Again, l entreat you,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 426 pages
...of this truth which Christ teachcth you, " Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it ; but wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there... | |
 | 1825 - 140 pages
...crowd, the voices of their serious converse alone broke upon the solemn stillness. " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life ; and few there be that find it." These words were uttered with great solemnity by one of them, and replied to by the... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1825 - 276 pages
...vestige of them remain ! ' Your fathers, where are they ? ' Our Lord assures us, that ' strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it :' if so, it might be inferred of our departed ancestors, that the number of those who... | |
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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. 
