| Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 530 pages
...is refused.* When one said to him, Lord are there fere that be saved? he answered, Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be uWe.t There is nothing in the scriptures tending, in its own nature, to excite levity or folly.... | |
| 1828 - 594 pages
...which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." At another time lie said, " Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." The great difficulty that lies in the •way of men's obtaining the enjoyments of hearen,... | |
| George Beaumont (minister at Norwich.) - 1824 - 168 pages
...way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that Jind it." (Matt. vii. 13, 14.) " Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." (Luke xiii. 24.) And likewise we have in the parable of the sower and the seed, four... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1824 - 480 pages
...few that be saved ?" He bade the inquirer, and ourselves in him, look to himself: " Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able."* Many will seek other ways, different from that which God hath provided in and through... | |
| 1874 - 346 pages
...will and to do of His good pleasure." ' And the words of Christ Himself, who says, " Strive to enter in at the strait gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." 7 1 Isa. lv. 1. 2 Heb. ix. 27. 3 Eccl. ix. 10. * Isa. lv. 6. b 2 Pet. i. 10. 6 Philip,... | |
| New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Tract Association - 1824 - 430 pages
...their salvation, who seem to have taken some pains to obtain it : as in thase words : " Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Here our blessed Lord commands us to strive to enter in, because many will fail who only... | |
| Thom Scott - 1824 - 622 pages
...of heaven suffereth " violence, and the violent take it by force." l " Strive (dysw'fy<rte) to enter in at the strait 'gate, " for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in " and will not be able." 2 " The kingdom of God " is preached, and every man presseth into it" — t\s dim-,*... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 546 pages
...it is refused.* When one said to him, Lord are there few that be saved? he answered, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and ihall not be «/)/(.'.! There is nothing in the scriptures tending, in its own nature, to excite levity... | |
| David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards - 1824 - 572 pages
...of his supper," the rich provision which he has made for the eternal entertainment of his guests. " When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door," you will in vain stand without, and knock for admission. In a word, Now he declares by his servants... | |
| 1824 - 400 pages
...several days, when reading the 13th of Luke at the 24th which is--" Strive to enter in at the straight gate, for many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able ;" and considering that the word strive was not so emphatical as it ought to be rendered... | |
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