 | John Clayton - 1789 - 134 Seiten
...falvation — 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... | |
 | Henry Owen - 1797 - 420 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...will 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 Seiten
...time 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 Seiten
...now 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 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 Seiten
...field for the promulgation of the heaven-born and heaven-given doctrines of the Lord and of His Word. Let us work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work. Let each of us earnestly say — " For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's... | |
 | 1856 - 766 Seiten
...actions of 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... | |
 | 1822 - 440 Seiten
...and love of God. And let all 'he ministers of Christ consider well the saying of their Master; — " Work while it is day; for the night cometh when no man can work." The distance between the present period, and that when they will be called to give up their... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1815 - 350 Seiten
...now improve or waste the talents entrusted 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 unjust steward : the chief design... | |
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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. 
