...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...