| John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...of thexe smaller matters interfered, its members could say, » Nehemiah did of old, " 1 am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down > why should...work cease whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?** He remembered what was said of the company of the faithful in the primitive church, and when he... | |
| John Kitto - Iran - 1799 - 200 pages
...consideration for, his visitors. We were reminded, by application, of the words of Nehemiah, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" Neh. vi. 8. In 1832, Meerza Ibrahim, of Haileybury College, having made a translation of the Book ol... | |
| John Kitto - Christian education - 1850 - 204 pages
...consideration for, his visitors. We •were reminded, by application, of the words of Nehemiah, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down tb you?" Neh. vi. 8. In 1832, Meerza Ibrahim, of Haileybury College, having made a translation of the... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...Ono : but they thought to do me mischief. And I sent . messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? They could have no business •tvith him of so much importance as that he was now engaged in. 4 Yet... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, eo that I cannot come down : why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? They could have no businese with him of »o much importance as that he vías noto engaged in. 4 Yet... | |
| Jean-Baptiste Massillon - Bible - 1805 - 304 pages
...mere ceremony and complaisance, answered them, saying, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannct come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?"} Now, is a minister of Christ, when occupied in repairing the spiritual edifice of the Church —... | |
| Jean-Baptiste Massillon - Pastoral theology - 1806 - 350 pages
...in the folly of the world? What — . but the wise answer of the Jewish chief — " I am " doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; " .why should the work cease whilst I leave " it?" What more worthy of his ministry, uiore respectable in the eyes of men, then not to suffer himself... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...learned to suspect the hollow favours of an enemy, and to return them with safe and just excuses : / cannot come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? 1 do not hear him say, " You intend mischief to me ; I will not come forth. to you ;" though this... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...of Ona But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a have to dwell in ; and the suburbs of diem shall...their cattle, and for their goods, and for all the ? 4 Yet they sent unto me four times, after this sort ; and I answered them after the same manner.... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1813 - 460 pages
...conclusion; and answered, though not in the words, yet in the spirit of Nehemiah of old, 1 am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you* ? It will not be supposed, indeed, that as a minister of the Gospel, he considered himself as precluded... | |
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