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
 | John Scott - 1826 - 608 pages
...xvi. 13. Watch ye, standfast in the faith, quit yourselves like men ; and 1 Thess. v. 6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober ; where the nature of the duty is plainly discovered by its opposite or contrary, Let us not sleep,... | |
 | 1826 - 590 pages
...children of light, and the children of the day ; we arc 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... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1826 - 360 pages
...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 Thess. v. 5, 6. " God hath from the beginning chosen " you to salvation ; therefore stand fast."... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...the children of light ;" and then follows one of the apostle's practical "there/ores" — "Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober." " Watch." We understand by this, careful attention to the things of God, alertness, a looking out for... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...you out of the bed of sloth and security, and set yourselves to the work of God in good earnest ; " Let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober; for they that sleep, sleep in the night," 1 Thess. v. 6, 7. It is very unbecoming persons professing... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 474 pages
...between shadows and substances ? THE TEXTS. Psalm xxxix. 6. Man walketh in a vain shadow. 1 Thess. v. 6. Let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch, and be sober. Eph. v. 14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Luke... | |
 | Robert Wilson (A.M.) - 1826 - 236 pages
...the night nor of darkness," ver. 5. On this truth he grounds the duty of watchfulness. " Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be saber. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.... | |
 | 1827 - 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. But... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...man. 1 COR. xvi. 13 : Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1 THES. v. 6 : Let us not sleep as do others ; but let us watch and be sober. 1 PET. v. 8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, &c. • 1 Tiu.sv 2 : Yourselves... | |
 | 1827 - 600 pages
...to-morrow we die ;" • the other says, the " day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night, therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch 'and be sober." With what beautiful simplicity do those masters of poetry, Horace, Juvenal and Persius, speak of the... | |
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