 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 1381850Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 842 pages
...thé cbildren of light, and thé children of thé day : we- are not of thé niglit, 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 thé niglit ; and they that be drunken, are drunken in thé niglit.... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1817 - 630 pages
...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"... | |
 | 1817 - 334 pages
...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. 8. But let us who are of the day, be sober ; putting on the breast plate... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...the " 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; who died... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...brethren, are not in darkness. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day ; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let...sleep as do others ; but let us watch, and be sober*. Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word,... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1819 - 226 pages
...36. Acts, 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... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...Christian life, contrasted with the spirit aud practice of the world. The first, on 1 Thess. v. 7, 8 : " They that sleep, sleep in the night ; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night: But let us, who are of the day, be sober; putting on the breastplate of faith... | |
 | 262 pages
...should 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
...0 may 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...they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunk, be diunk in the night — but let us who are of the day, be sober." The light of Eternity, which... | |
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