 But forasmuch as the passage was wonderful narrow, even so narrow that I could not but with great difficulty enter in thereat, it showed me that none could enter into life but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left that wicked...  Miscellaneous Prose Works - Page 79by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1908 - 282 pages
...those that are gross with their sins until they put off the grossness of their sin " (Euth. Zig.). " Only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin " (Bunyan, Gr. Ab. 55). Matt. vii. 15-20. THE TEST OF PROFESSION. 15 Beware of false prophets, which... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1910 - 798 pages
...that I could but with great difficulty enter in thereat, it showed me that none could enter into life but those that were in downright earnest, and unless,...behind them; for here was only room for body and soul, and not for body and soul and sin." How beautiful is the similar estimate of the glory and beauty of... | |
 | Albert Henry Currier - 1912 - 448 pages
...that I could not but with great difficulty enter in thereat, it showed that none could enter into life but those that were in downright earnest, and unless...room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and fin." This passage from the story of his religious experience, in "Grace Abounding," is interesting... | |
 | Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1912 - 156 pages
...but those who were in downright earnest and unless they left the wicked world behind them; for there was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin. — John Bunyan. I. THE NATOHE OF SIN. Henry Drummond has said that sin is a little word that has wandered... | |
 | Robert Scott, George William Gilmore - 1916 - 246 pages
...it showed me that none could enter into life but those that were in downright earnest, and left the wicked world behind them; for here was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin (Matt. 7: 14). This resemblance abode upon my spirit many days ; all which time I saw myself in a forlorn... | |
 | Harold Edwin Balme Speight - 1928 - 266 pages
...showed him, he tells us, that no one can enter into life but those who are "in downright earnest," for "here was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin." Unhappily he could not believe he had made his way through this narrow entrance, so he found no comfort... | |
 | John Buchan - 1928 - 444 pages
...uncompromisingly the necessity of a choice between two paths; in Bunyan's words the mountain gate 'has room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin.' It taught a deep consciousness of guilt, and a profound sense of the greatness of God, so that they... | |
 | John Brown - 1928 - 648 pages
...through but those who are in downright earnest, and who leave the wicked world behind them. There is just room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin. It must be a strait gate through which a man gets rid of self ; but by dint of sidling and striving... | |
 | John D. Barbour - 1994 - 264 pages
...and the world, and the narrow way through is Jesus Christ; none could enter unless "they left this wicked world behind them; for here was only room for...body and soul, but not for body and soul, and sin" (18). The internal moral struggle is a conflict between the old sinful self and the slowly emerging... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1998 - 342 pages
...could not but with great difficulty, enter in thereat; it shewed me, that none could enter into life but those that were in down-right earnest, and unless also they left this wicked world behind them; for here was only roome for Body and Soul, but not for Body and Soul,... | |
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