| Peter Hall - 1661 - 176 pages
...world. Enter ye in at the strait gate. For Matt. vii. 13. 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 14. is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. For the grace of God that bringeth... | |
| Richard Lucas - 1710 - 382 pages
...off every weight. Strive, faid our bleffed Saviour, to enter in At the ftrait Gate; for jlrait is the Gate, And narrow is the way that leadeth unto Life, and few there be that fnd it. All our Vigour, all our fltength, affifted by the Spirit of God, will be little enough... | |
| William Beveridge - Christian life - 1712 - 400 pages
...from Heaven to Earth , on purpofe to mew us the way from Earth to Heaven , faith, That ftrait is the gate and 'narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. r . [.'.. AND let not any think' that Chrift fpoke thefe Words in vain, or that it is... | |
| James Gardiner - Sermon on the mount - 1720 - 448 pages
...is the way that leadeth to deftruction, and many there be that go in thereat. £ecaufe ftrait is the gate , and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it* , PCHAP. CHAP. XXIII. Of Falfe Teachers. MATT. vii. if, i<J, 17, 18, ip, zo. Beware of... | |
| William Law - Christian ethics - 1726 - 552 pages
...to be along with the many, though God himfelf has told you, upon Chriftian Perfection. 545 you, that narrow is the Way, that leadeth unto Life, and few there be. that find it. LASTLT, one Word more and I have done, think with your fel£ what a Happinefs it is,... | |
| Richard Bundy - 1740 - 478 pages
...the Way, that leadeth to Dejlrutticn, and many there be that go in thereat : becaufe jlrait is the Gate, and narrow is the Way, that leadeth unto Life, and few there be that find it. — From which Words, thus underftood, I fhall take Occafion, I. To enquire wherein the... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Grace (Theology) - 1765 - 332 pages
...way that leadeth " to deftru&ioh, and many there be which go .** in thereat : Becaufe flrait is the gate, and " narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and ** few there be that find it * ." Arid as none can attend the ftage, but thofe in higher life* and more affluent circumflances... | |
| Jean-Frédéric Bernard - Hell - 1765 - 266 pages
...the way, that leadeth to deftruction, and many ." there be which go in thereat ; but ftrait is the " gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, " and few there be that find it J." In fhort, there are thoufands who travel there at every hour and every minute, fome... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1773 - 630 pages
...gate, and broad is the -way that leadeth to deftruction, and many go in thereat; but that ftrait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it, Matth. vii. i2. i3. Many art called, but few are chofen. So that Chrift did not offer... | |
| Matthew Mead - 1788 - 222 pages
...it is imagined to be : This is attefted by our Lord Chrift himfelf. Matth. vii. 14. "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." The gate of converfion is a very ftraight gate, and yet every man that would be faved... | |
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