 | John Norris - 1724 - 508 sider
...PrecerJts are excellently Good, and whofe Promifes are excellently Great. And what then? Therefore let us not Sleep as do others, but let us Watch and be Sober , i Theif. 5. 5, 6. AGAIN, Fourthly and Laftly, We Chriftians have one more peculiar Reafon not to... | |
 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 sider
...Apoftle likewife condemns drunkennef?, as peculiarly inconfiftent with the Chriftian profeffion ; " They that be drunken, are drunken in the night; " but let us, who are of the day, be fobcr." i TheJJ. v. 7, 8. We arc not concerned with the argument ; the words amount to a prohibition... | |
 | 1788 - 598 sider
...Therefore let us not fleep as do others j but let us watch and be fober. 7 For they that fleep, fleep in the night ; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be fober j putting on the breaft-plate of faith and love ; and, for... | |
 | William Paley - 1793 - 456 sider
...Apoftle likewife condemns drunkennefs, as peculiarly inconfiftent with the Chriftian profeffion : " They that be " drunken, are drunken in the night ; but let " us, ** us, who are of the day, be fober." i Thejf. v. 7, 8. We are not concerned with the argument,; the... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1795 - 638 sider
...us beware of the ENCHANTED GROUND? He meant by that, that we should beware of sleeping; " wherefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us •' watch and be sober1." HOPE. I acknowledge myself in a fault; and, had I been here alone, I had by sleeping run the... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 684 sider
...are loft in the darknefs of ignorance ; but it may not be once named among the children of the day. " They that be drunken, «« are drunken in the night; but let us that are of the day, be fober,'J j ThelT. v. 7, 8. And the apoftles often oppofe wine and the Spirit... | |
 | 1802 - 502 sider
...has faid 4let us not fleep as do others : but let us watch and be fober. For they that fleep, deep in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. But kt us who are of the day be fober, putting on the bnraft-plate of faith, and love, and for an helmet... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 494 sider
...and will never deceive us. THE TEXTS. Psal. 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 deepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Luke... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1801 - 624 sider
...therefore Jet us not fleep as do others, but let us watch and be fober. For they that fleep, fleep in the night ; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night ; but Jet us who are of the day, be fober." " The time paft of our life," fays St. Peter, " may fuffice us... | |
 | William Paley - 1801 - 508 sider
...Apoftle likewife condemns drunkennefs, as peculiarly inconfiftent with the Chriftian profeffion : " They that be drunken, are drunken in the night ; but let us, who ^re of the day, be fober." i Thef. v. 7, 8. We are not Concerned with the argument ; the words amount... | |
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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. 
