 | Richard Baxter - Pastoral theology - 1808 - 278 pages
...that we may end our days with this glorious triumph; Let us take time while we may have it ; and ' work ' while it is day, for the night cometh wherein no ' man can work.' If you would prepare for a comfortable death, and a glorious reward) ' gird ' up the loins of your... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1808 - 276 pages
...ourfelves, that we may end our days with this glorious triumph. Let us take time while we may have it; and ' work *• while it is day, for the night cometh wherein no ' man can work.' If you would prepare for a comfortable death, and a glorious reward, ' gird ' up the loins of your... | |
 | Charlotte Rees - Poor - 1811 - 78 pages
...will be our state. » Recollect you are note in time, to-morrozv you may be in eternity! " Work then while it is day ; for the night cometh wherein no man can work." The blessed Jesus himself declared, " If ye die in your sins, whither I go ye cannot come." (John viii.... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...surpassing light of the sun when it rises. Arise from the dead, and he shall give you light. Arise and work while it is day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work, says our Saviour himself. Happy are they who arise early in the morning' of their youth ; for the day... | |
 | John Willison - Christian life - 1821 - 316 pages
...according to the example of thy blessed Saviour, John ix. 4. " I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work." This consideration should make thee bestir thyself with the greatest activity, like Samson before his... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...whether he eat little or much." And such is every Christian. They have much to do; and they must do it "while it is day: for the night cometh wherein no man can work." Death brings them repose: " They rest from their labours." Sleep is a state from which rou may be easily... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...come into the presence of your Judge Let me then entreat you to " redeem the present time," and to " work while it is day ; for the night cometh wherein no man can work."] 0 Phil. i. 21. Pi Cor. iii. 22. CCCCLXXXI. JOB'S COMPASSION FOR THE POOR. Job xxx. 25. Did not I weep... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...greatest weight with every considerate mind ; and the rather, because it is urged by our Lord himself; " Work while it is day ; for the night cometh wherein no man can workb."] b John ix. 4. 388 ECCLESIASTES, IX. 10. [841. 2. There is no remedy to be devised" — [While... | |
 | Baptists - 1838 - 380 pages
...the establishment, but amongst all sects of Dissenters? Night is surely coming upon us, and let us " work while it is day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work." There are dark nights in the soul, dark nights in churches, and national dark nights. And is not the... | |
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Let us take time while we may have it, and " work while it is day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work. 
