| Robert Cowe - 1868 - 522 pages
...Thy law is within my heart." " My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work. I must work the work of Him that sent me, while it is day ; for the night cometh, when no man can work." And when He laid down His life a ransom for many,... | |
| William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 pages
...to the land where no night is. And once more the word is used when speaking of death and the grave : "I must work the work of Him that sent me, while it is day ; the night cometh when no man can work," that is, the night of death. It is in life only that... | |
| John Keble - Sermons, English - 1868 - 608 pages
...die, you will have no chance of making up for it hereafter. Our Lord implies the same, where Ho says, I must work the work of Him that sent Me, while it is day ; the night cometh, when no man can work. And St. Paul, in very many places, Having gifts differing... | |
| 1874 - 564 pages
...sufficient for the purpose has been given us, according to that saying of the LORD JESUS Himself, " I must work the work of Him that sent Me while it is day ; the night cometh, when no man can work." And that night is foreshadowed here, looking forward... | |
| Alexander Maclaren - Baptists - 1869 - 368 pages
...vocation conferred upon you, and of the short space within which your service must be condensed. " I must work the work of Him that sent me, while it is day : the night cometh, when no man can work." Christ asks no romantic impossibilities from us,... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Church group work - 1869 - 460 pages
...laid by the builder, not one touch more given to the edifice in any of its parts before the trial. " I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day : the night cometh when no man can work." And no man can tell when the night shall come in any... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Clergy - 1869 - 468 pages
...laid by the builder, not one touch more given to the edifice in any of its parts before the trial. " I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day : the night cometh when no man can work." And no man can tell when the night shall come in any... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1869 - 1006 pages
...this, there comes a change over the spirit of His life. The unremitting toil becomes more superhuman: " I must work the work of Him that sent Me while it is day ; the night cometh when no man can work." The cold presentiment of doom hangs more soften on... | |
| Robert Smith Candlish - Presbyterian Church - 1871 - 160 pages
...Abraham " rejoiced" — or earnestly desired — to see, must be the day of which he himself speaks ; " I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day." It is the day of his sojourn on earth ; when he glorified his Father, and finished the work given him... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - Sermons - 1871 - 844 pages
...this there comes a change over the spirit of His life. The unremitting toil becomes more superhuman, " I must work the work of Him that sent Me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work." The cold presentiment of doom hangs more often on Him.... | |
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