 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...villages in the plain of Ono.* But they thought to do mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? 4 Yet they sent unto me four... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 330 pages
...impertinently engage us, we should resemble the devoted Nehemiah: "I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?" Thirdly. Fire may be quenched by... | |
 | Charles Grandison Finney - Evangelistic work - 1835 - 452 pages
...by artifice and fraud, and draw him off from the vigorous prosecution of his work. But he replied, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should the work cease, whilst I come down to you ?" It has always been the case, whenever any... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...sloth and self-indulgence tempt us, answer like Nehemiah when building the walls of Zion, and say, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." Negligence is culpable in the commonest temporal duties, more so in the statesman, whose unadvised... | |
 | George Pritchard (Baptist.) - 1837 - 472 pages
...loiterers and the gay triflers of the age, as Nehemiah said to those who were disposed to interrupt him, ' I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?' Keeping this object in view,... | |
 | George Pritchard - 1837 - 504 pages
...loiterers and the gay triflers of the age, as Nehemiah said to those who were disposed to interrupt him, ' I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?' Keeping this object in view,... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, .w7p.w7 : why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? 4 Yet they sent unto me four... | |
 | M. A. Stodart - Books and reading - 1839 - 196 pages
...business," and our answer to every temptation to leave it should be made in the spirit of Nehemiah, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you ? " Remark then what I wish particularly... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1839 - 584 pages
...in the light of thy countenance." The path of life is light to the wise. He can say with Nehemiah, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." Let us proceed with our subject. To do some justice to it let us consider three things. The first regards... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1839 - 510 pages
...use the language of Nehemiah, to many proposals and pursuits which our inclinations may plead for, " I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you 7" Neh. vi. 3. Seldom is any man remarkably... | |
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Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it,... 
