 | Henry Owen - 1797 - 420 pages
...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 pages
...which 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 pages
...fhort my 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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 638 pages
...will do for Spain and Italy, and other nations, what England now does for us and the world." " Let us work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work." Donations in aid of this object will be thankfully received by Joseph Reyner, Esq. Mark-lane;... | |
 | Hannah Neale - 1813 - 394 pages
...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 - 1863 - 604 pages
...warnings. Every day brings its admonition. The rising and the setting sun remind us it is our duty to work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work. Every season brings its admonition. Spring tells us we should break up our fallow ground, and... | |
 | 1856 - 766 pages
...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1815 - 350 pages
...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. 
