| John Pridham - 1826 - 376 pages
...hosts of darkness, " and make our calling and election sure"." " Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching! Verily...down to meat, and will come forth and serve them""." • Gen. xxxix. 9. ' Col. iv. 2. " 2 Pet. i. 10. uu Luke xii. 37. LECTURE LXXXI. ON RESISTING AND MORTIFYING... | |
| 1858 - 726 pages
...calleth for thee." Oh, to have " our loins girded about — our lights burning — and we ourselves * we may open unto Him immediately." We feel that we scarcely need, in our present Address, offer any... | |
| William Jones, William Stevens - Theology - 1826 - 526 pages
...punishment of an evil servant: now learn the reward of a good one.—" Blessed are " those servants whom the Lord when he cometh, " shall find watching: verily...unto you, that " he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to " meat, and come forth and serve them." Excess and riot can last but a very short time... | |
| 1827 - 524 pages
...treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their...down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. LUKE, xii. 37, 38 : Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I...down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...is, there will your heart be also. 35 Let your 'loins be girded about, and your "lights burning; 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their...and 'knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37 "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find "watching: verily I say unto... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...uniform virtue and obedience. " Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh shall fmd watching. Verily, I say unto you, that he shall gird...down to meat, and will come forth and serve them," Luke xii. 37. When Thomas, upon the ground of an overbearing evidence, admitted the truth of his resurrection,... | |
| Henry Belfrage - Older people - 1827 - 710 pages
...may bring forth. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he will return...; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately."* These precepts require a detachment from the world, and an engagement with heavenly... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...forgave you, so also do ye. e See on MAT. xvii. 20. f LuKE, xii. 37: Blessed are those servants whom the Lord .when he cometh shall find watching: verily I...unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. » JOB, xxii. 3: Is it any pleasure to the Almighty,... | |
| 1828 - 220 pages
...shall read the Gospel. St. Luke xii. 35. LET your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their...down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are... | |
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