Are There Few That Shall Be Saved?

I

Destruction’s dangerous road
What multitudes pursue,
While that which leads the soul to God
Is known or sought by few.

II

Believers enter in
By Christ, the living gate;
But they who will not leave their sin,
Complain it is too strait.

III

If self must be denied,
And sin forsaken quite,
They rather choose the way that’s wide,
And strive to think it right.

IV

Encompass’d by a throng,
On numbers they depend;
So many surely can’t be wrong,
And miss a happy end.

V

But numbers are no mark
That men will right be found;
A few were saved in Noah’s ark,
For many millions drown’d.

VI

Obey the gospel call,
And enter while you may,
The flock of Christ is always small,
And none are safe but they.

VII

Lord, open sinners eyes
Their awful state to see;
And make them, ere the storm arise,
To thee for safety flee.