 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 644 pages
...the Lord saying ? ' " Many are called, but few chosen." And again: " Strait is the gate, and narrow the way» « that leadeth to life : And few there be that find it." [Matth. vii. 13, 14.] Who that is in • his senses would not wish to be of the few that enter... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pages
...get to heaven, that place of joys we before spake of, and by consequence that but few get thither; For strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to it. Lastly, Howsoever difficult it is, our Saviour would have us strive to get to heaven, so as to... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck - Monasteries - 1816 - 398 pages
...not by sight. The door of entrance is Christ. Nor can any man enter that door without repentance ; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Agonize then, and strive to enter the strait gate; for many... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...to make that use of this truth which Christ teaches 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... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 320 pages
...the way that leadeth " to destruction, and many there.be who go in thereat. " Because, strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that " leadeth to life, and few there be that find it," Matt, ix. 13, 14. : As soon as these great numbers, who are going through the wide gate and in... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - Sermons - 1821 - 392 pages
...is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it." — Matth. ix. 13, 14. As soon as these great numbers, who are going through the wide gate, and... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Hawker - 1822 - 620 pages
...should go, or what course to take : at length, with much, musing, he called to mind that saying, " Narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it, " and again, " Broad is the way that leadeth to death, and many there be that Labour in asceodiug... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 362 pages
...difficulty, trial, and temptation; that "many are called, but few are chosen;" that "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it:" and lastly, that, "if the righteous themselves shall scarcely be saved," there will be no place... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1823 - 546 pages
...again to consider which way he should go; at length whh much musing, he called to mind that saying, " Narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it;" and again, " Broad is the way that leads to death, and many there be that enter in thereat." So... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 326 pages
...and temptation : that "many arc called, but few are chosen;" that "strait is the gate, and Darro w is the way, that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it:" and lastly, that, " if the righteous themselves shall scarcely be saved," there will be no place... | |
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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 to life, and few there be that find it. 
