tradesmen and respectable farmers mingled with labourers in their frocks and old women in their red cloaks. The introductory devotional exercises being concluded, Mr. Hall rose to announce his text : " Let us not sleep as do others ; but let us watch... The Baptist Magazine - Page 4601844Full view - About this book
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...children of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness ; therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. (p) See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise ; redeeming the time, because... | |
| David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 592 pages
...up to King and Oueen county, and preached at Bruington meeting-house, from these words: Therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. It was an awakening discourse, worthy of this masterly workman. On that day he took cold and... | |
| Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...this head. How pertinent in this view is the advice given by the apostle in the verses preceding our text. " Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation." He exhorts... | |
| Future punishment - 1817 - 334 pages
...children of light, and the children of the day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6. Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.... | |
| 1818 - 396 pages
...and the faith to which they had been called : " We are not of the night, nor of darkness ; therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch, and be sober." 1 These, v. 5, 0. " God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation ; therefore stand fast."... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...CHILDREN OF LIGHT, and the CHILDREN OF" " THE DAY : we are not of the NIGHT nor of DARK" NESS. Therefore let us not SLEEP, as do others ; " but let us watch and be sober. For God hath not " appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by " our Lord Jesus Christ;... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Economics - 1819 - 200 pages
...violence, (" The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force;") watching, (" Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong: Watch and pray, that ye enter... | |
| John Bunyan - 1814 - 568 pages
...beware of the Enchanted Ground? He meant by that, that we should beware of sleeping ;—" wherefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch, and be sober 3 . q " HOPE. I acknowledge myself in a fault; and, had I been here alone, I had by sleeping... | |
| John Bunyan - 1820 - 430 pages
...beware of the Enchanted Ground ? He meant by that, that we should beware of sleeping • ' wherefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch, and be sober.' 1 Hope. I acknowledge myself in a fault; and, had I been here alone, I had by sleeping run... | |
| Theology - 1821 - 694 pages
...these thoughts, possess my breast " Where'er I roam—where'er I rest." With such thoughts therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. " For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunk, be diunk in the night—but... | |
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