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
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...in prayer, and watch in the same.—Col. iv. 2. We are not of the night, nor of darkness ; therefore let us not sleep as do others : but let us watch and be sober ; for they that sleep, sleep in the night, &c.—1 These, v. 5—7. Some shall depart from the... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1828 - 714 pages
...are children of the light and children of the day : we are not of the night or of darkness. 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 drunken, are drunken in the night.... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1828 - 180 pages
..."to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall " we ever be with the Lord." (C. iv. 15—17.) " Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but '* let us watch and be sober." (C. v. 6.) When these words were read by the Thessalonians, it was not to be wondered at that... | |
| 1828 - 828 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 dnmken in the night.... | |
| Renn Dickson Hampden (bp. of Hereford.) - Sermons, English - 1828 - 512 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. for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.... | |
| Lutheran Church - 1829 - 424 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. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.... | |
| James Knight - Bible - 1829 - 1038 pages
...event; —and how important the exhortation which it is so well calculated to enforce ! Oh then, " let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober." Let us earnestly pray that we may possess a true faith in Him who alone is mighty to save ;... | |
| Henry Belfrage - Christian life - 1829 - 484 pages
...the grave to which we are going. Beware of encouraging yourselves in sloth by the example of others. Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. Instead of looking at the sluggard, while he cries " Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...maintain a lively sense of the infinite importance of their spirituwconcerns. 1 Thes. v. 6. " Therefore let us not sleep, as do others •> but let us watch and be sober.'' (2.) They should go through their work with earnest labour as Christ did. The time when others... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 648 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. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night."... | |
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