...O what cruel deceits will sin land us in! and how artfully it pleads for a " little more sleep, and a little more slumber ; a little more folding of the hands to sleep." We should hold out no longer, nor make not such an abuse of the forbearance of God : we will treasure...

...warned either of God or man, that trials and dangers are at hand ; and yet may say in his heart, " A little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to rest." Now, if such a one afterwards fall, though unawares, into the snare which he might have avoided,...

...safety and blessedness. But be the danger of delay more or less imminent, they still covet a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. If the result of their delay is perdition, all this danger they intend to risk. 3. Others perhaps refuse...

...God and eternity exclaimed aloud, " Awake, thou that sleepest," the dreamer answered, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep !"—and so on thousands has ruin " come as one that travelleth, and destruction like an armed man."...

...employed;—employed upon suitable objects and in a proper manner.— If the sluggard who is always calling out for " a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," finds nothing in his experience that deserves the name of happiness, surely the wretch who is active...

...guardians of public morals all this time? Were they, like Rip Van Winkle, sleeping comfortably, crying " A little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep?" Or did they, like the people of Lilliput, entertain a wholesome distrust of their power to put down...

...motives, is not the speech ii! the sluggard the very language of our conduct ? "A little more sleep, л little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." The most »opine indifference, where all possible diligence is but just sufficient! This, учи must...

...— but they defer the consideration till some future period. As the sluggard desires a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ; so do many of the young, yes, and many of the old, delay from day to day, and from year to year,...

...a person, having once beheld the bright morning sun, to turn on his pillow and say, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," The earlier rest is taken, the more satisfying and beneficial it will be found. " One hour before midnight...

...which he had formerly made respecting the absurd folly of slothfulness. For the words, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," together with the remark appended to them, occur before in an earlier part of his own writings. But...