Ye are all the 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. The pilgrim's progress - Page 164by John Bunyan - 1820 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...brethren are not in darkness. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day. 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. But... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1819 - 226 pages
...xx. 31. 1 Cor. xvi. 13. 1 Thess. v. 6. 2 Tim. iv. 5. 1 Pet, iv. 7 ; v. 8. Key. xvi. 15. H5 Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast-plate of truth and love, and for an helmet... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 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 not... | |
 | 262 pages
...overtake you as a thief: ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day : — therefore let us not sleep as do others ; but let us WATCH, and BE SOBER."—! Thes. v. 1. " For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave anthority... | |
 | 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 let... | |
 | George Fox - 1821 - 420 pages
...watch in all things, and the saints were to watch and be sober unto prayer. 1 Pet. 4. 7. 1 Thes. 1. 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 are drunk, are drunk in the night ; but let... | |
 | 1821 - 610 pages
...come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." " Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and b« sober," having " no fellowship with the unfruitiut yrorks of darkness," but drawing near unto the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 728 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. But let... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...children of the 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. But... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1823 - 582 pages
...circumspection, and pity the scorner who ridicules them. 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 the... | |
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