| 1827 - 590 páginas
...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 - 1828 - 504 páginas
...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... | |
| William Jay - 1828 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Craig - 1828 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
| Extracts - 1828 - 786 páginas
...promised land ; for" broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go that way; but narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt. vii. 13. This will be Christian's trying hour: though he may have passed through... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 588 páginas
...this matter ; seeing there are but few that have. Christ has told us, that straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. There have been but few in all ages of the world. Many seek ; and many hope that they... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1829 - 250 páginas
...truth which Christ teacheth 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 which leadeth to destruction, and many there... | |
| John Sheppard - 1829 - 416 páginas
...supposition that the profligate Oppianicus had gone to a place and state of suffering after death.* gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it ;" and which invested the future state of all the excluded, — the idolatrous, the proud,... | |
| John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 páginas
...before you, II. THE PATH OF CHRISTIAN HOLINESS WHICH WE ARE TO PURSUE: — "STRAIT IS THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY THAT LEADETH UNTO LIFE, AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT." Here we perceive that this road is put in complete contrast with the former, as it regards... | |
| 1830 - 756 páginas
...that leadeth unto 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." The destruction and the life here spoken of, are the same as the exclusion from and the entering into the... | |
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