 | William Jay - 1812 - 284 pages
...Nehemiah—" I sent messengers ' unto them saying, I am doing a great work—so that I TO*. H. T 2 " cannot come down; why should the work cease, while " I leave it, and come down to you ?" Thirdly. Fire may be quenched " by the separation "of the parts." And this you will apply to our... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pages
...Nehemiah, saying, "Conic let us meet together; let us take counsel together." But he sent to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down....work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?" The friends of missions, like Nehemiah, are engaged in a cause which they assuredly believe the God... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...eternity, I am pleading the cause on which depends life or death ; so that I cannot hearken to thee. " Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ?" Alas this business will go no farther than it is lifted at ; I am rowing up a river, if I trifle... | |
 | 1815 - 406 pages
...must meet his hearers at the bar of Christ. 'When such objects solicit his l'égard, his answer is: "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:...work cease, while I leave it, and Come down to you?" In the peculiar blessing which tisually follows the labors of faith• ful, disinterested, devoted... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...entreating him to come down and rejoice on the plain : " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot com» down : why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ? " Pp. 78 —80. The eighth Sermon is, The inward Testimony of the Servant of God, on 1 John, v. 10,... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1823 - 378 pages
...religion, as Nehemiah answered the messengers entreating him to come down and rejoice on the plain : " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ?" 2. A second idea implied in the image of the text, is that of progress. — Advancement is one of... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1824 - 448 pages
...Nehemiah, saying, "Come let us meet together; let us take counsel together." But he sent to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down....work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?" The friends of missions* like Nehemiah, are engaged in a cause which they assuredly believe the God... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pages
...persevering conduct, to all their taunts, and flatteries, or threatening«, " 1 am doing a great work and cannot come down, why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?" it has frequently been seeu, that these selfish opponents have become cringing svcophauts, and have... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 660 pages
...proposals and pursuits which our inclinations may plead for, " I am doing a great work, so that I can" not come down : why should the work cease ; " while I leave it and come down to you ?"J Seldom is any man remarkably successful and eminent in * Acts, xx. 20.; 2 Tim. iv. 2. t 1 Kings,... | |
 | John Newton - 1824 - 646 pages
...and pursuits which our inclination may plead for, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot cooie down : why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you ?"* Seldom is any man remarkably successful and eminent in arts or sciences, in the acquisition of... | |
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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 ? ' 4And they sent to me in this way four times, and I gave them the same answer. 
