 | Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...5th verse. ' Ye are all children of the light and of the day, and not the sons of night or darkness ; therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober ; putting on the breast- plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation, for God... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...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. (p) See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise ; redeeming the time, because the days... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...Thessalonians. Ye are all children of the light and of the day, and Mot the sons of night or darkness ; therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober -, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation* for God... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pages
...is high time to awake out of sleep," said the watchman that guarded the city of the living. God. " Let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be sober." Mankind in general, as to their spiritual concerns, are fast asleep ; lulled in carnal security, and... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...constrain us ! And let us remember our professed character : " We are not of the night, nor of darkness : therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober." After the example of our blessed Lord, let us work " while it is day : the night cometh when no man... | |
 | 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 - Christian literature, American - 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"... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...moderation, Ye 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 - Conduct of life - 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... | |
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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. 
