...Court, or Congress, he cannot give a more appropriate answer than that of Nehemiah to Sanballat, — ' 1 am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ? ' Surely one sword is enough for any man to wield, and in our holy warfare, that ought never...

...enough belong to others, but would impertinently engage us, we should resemble the devoted Nehemiah: "I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a...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 the separation of its parts....

...cannot give a more appropriate answer than that of Nehemiah to Sanballat, — ' 1 am doing a gAJat work, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ? ' Surely one sword is enough for any man to wield, and in our holy warfare, that ought never...

...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 of the servants of God do any thing in...

...church may have been accustomed to perform their service. LECTURE XV. HINDERANCES TO REVIVALS. TEXT.—" I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, whilst Ileaveit, and come down to you." — NEHEMMH vi. 3. THIS servant of God had come down from Babylon...

...intrusion or solicitation should draw us from the work of the Lord; but we should say, as Nehemiah did, " Why should the work cease whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" In Matthew, it is said, they desired to speak with him. Thus, when we are engaged in the most...

...Bul they thought to do me mischief 'And I sent messenger» 3 unto Ihom, saying, I am doing a créât work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it» and come down lo you ? Yet they sent unió me four times after this 4 sort; and 1 answered [hem after the same manner....

...those who choose to be iriee and witty, and wish to provoke a controversy, this is my answer: / он» doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it and come DOWN to YOU? Neh.vi. 3. CHAPTER XII. & PeW mentions some wonderful revelations...

...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...

...together in frme one o/the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And you ? 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner....