 | John Clayton - 1789 - 134 pagina’s
...— that now is the accepted time; and, therefore', it is an advice of the higheft moment, to work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work — a duty which, with peculi ar energy, St. Paul urgeth, when he fays, " Work out your falvation... | |
 | Johann Caspar Lavater - 1795 - 296 pagina’s
...every day to watch and to pray, becaufe I do not know when my Judge fhall come : — yes, my foul, work while it is -day, for the night cometh when no man can work. O Lord, teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wifdom. Let me, Father, let... | |
 | Henry Owen - 1797 - 420 pagina’s
...falvation. It concerns us to work it out in the way he has fhewn. It concerns us to work it out fpeedily, " while it is day ; for the night cometh, " when no man can work." s t But, to convince you the more fully of this truth, and to urge you to a fuitable conduct,... | |
 | General Association of Connecticut - 1801 - 442 pagina’s
...flourish in Millennial days. The removal of your predecessors and fellow labourers calls you to work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work.' Within a few weeks past, as you know, the Rev. Dr. Welch, who was, for many years, a faithful... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - 1807 - 700 pagina’s
...is.' O that I may never forget that my time is fhort : and may a fenfe of this induce me to * work while it is day,' for ' the night cometh when no man Can work.' 29, Dining at an inn, in Northallerton, I reproved one of the company for fwearing, who feemed... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1809 - 354 pagina’s
...improve or wafte the talents entrufled to our care. God grant ! then, my brethren, that we may work, " while it is day ; for the night cometh when no man can work * !" The words of the text are taken from the parable of the unjuft fteward : the chief defign... | |
 | Hannah Neale - 1813 - 394 pagina’s
...sabbathday, saw a poor man, who had been blind from his birth : and he said to his disciples, I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day ; for the night cometh when no man can work, Maria. But day always succeeds night, and what is left undone one day may be done another. Aunt.... | |
 | 1821 - 632 pagina’s
...to> do," says Solomon, " do it with all thy might ; " and a greater than Solomon hath said, " Work while it is day ; for the night cometh when; no man can work." We are to work for ourselves ; for we are commanded to " work out our own salvation with fear... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pagina’s
...degree of obscurity. Day and night, and the various hours of both, are all symbolical. "I must work the work of Him that sent Me while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work." (John ix. 4.) "Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth... | |
 | 1856 - 766 pagina’s
...all stand out in their true light. " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Work while it is day ; for the night cometh when no man can work." " TO-MORROW;" OB, THE EVILS OF PBOCBASTINATION. CHAPTEB II. I AWOKE very early the next morning... | |
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I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work d ." Two doctrines, both of them distinctly Christian, throw their guardian shadows over the lesson. 
