| George Bull - 1827 - 514 pągines
...of the catechism, wherein the Fathers seem to have forgotten the words of our Saviour, Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it, Matt. vii. 14. And that therefore he hath appointed the sacrament of penance, as a help or crutch to a lame and defective... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 676 pągines
...carry them in his bosom, and shall eently lead those that are with young. MAT. vii. 14: Strait is me gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it. JOHN, x. 27, 28: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me : and I... | |
| 1827 - 590 pągines
...and the 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,... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1827 - 538 pągines
...from heaven to earth, on purpose to show us the way from earth to heaven, saith, that " strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be thaj find it." 420 And let not any think that Christ spake these words in vain, or that it is no great... | |
| George Peck - 1827 - 166 pągines
...broad is the way thatleadeth to destruction and many there be who go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and- narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. — Not every one that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven... | |
| Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pągines
...Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and ending of all our desires and affections. 0 ! how strait is the gate and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life ; and few there be that find it. May I never forget this unchangeable truth ; that Jesus is the only way of escape from... | |
| Selina Bunbury - 1827 - 252 pągines
...necessary, for it is written, " Without holiness no man shall sec the Lord;1' and again," Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." " Oh then, I could not read such things, for they would make me melancholy and miserable.''... | |
| Edward Craig - 1828 - 378 pągines
...be so ; for whatever men in 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 pągines
...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 many trials and difficulties... | |
| Edward Irving - 1828 - 504 pągines
...and from 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... | |
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