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" 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 138
1850
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The Whole Works Of...Oliver Heywood Now First Collected, Revised & Arranged ...

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 the name of God to be secure and sinful...
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Apostolical Preaching Considered: In an Examination of St. Paul's Epistles

John Bird Sumner - 1826 - 360 pages
...before, than the God by whom they were chosen, and the faith to which they had been called : " We are not of the night, nor of darkness ; " therefore let...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."...
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The Gospel magazine, and theological review. Ser. 5. Vol. 3, no. 1-July 1874

1858 - 726 pages
...; ye are 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...
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The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of ...

John Scott - 1826 - 608 pages
...also, 1 Cor. 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,...
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A Treatise on the Divine Sovereignty

Robert Wilson (A.M.) - 1826 - 236 pages
...are not of 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....
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones ..., Volume 5

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...
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The times and the seasons; or, The prophetic writings harmonized

1827 - 516 pages
...overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of the light and the children of the day : we are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us...sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be tares, for it is only by searching that...
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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Volume 1

1827 - 512 pages
...should overtake you as a thief; 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...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...
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A new self-interpreting Testament, containing thousands of various ..., Volume 2

John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...flesh are manifest,—envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. 1 THES. v. 6—8 : Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and...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...
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The Religious Monitor, and Evangelical Repository, Volume 3

1827 - 600 pages
...for 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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