 | John Kitto - 1850 - 204 pages
...and 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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pages
...the 3 plain of 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 the 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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 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... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1805 - 320 pages
...unprofitable and vain employments of the world, but that wise reply of the pious Jewish minister ? " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down, lest it should be neglected." What more worthy of his ministry, and also more respectable in the eyes... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 542 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? I do not hear him say, " You intend mischief to me ; I will not come forth to... | |
 | 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 ? I do not hear him say, " You intend mischief to me ; I will not come forth to... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...in the plain of Ona But they thought to do me 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 times, after this sort ; and I answered them after... | |
 | William Jay - 1812 - 290 pages
...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 the separation " of... | |
 | 1813 - 500 pages
...Rev. Olive r Cobb, of Rochester, from Nehfmiah vi. 3. " And I sent messengers unto them, saying, 1 am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and comc down to you." ORDINATION. OR D AIM FD, at Utica, NY on the. 4th Ftb. the Rev. HENRY DWIGHT,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1813 - 460 pages
...denied their 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 the 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... | |
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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? 
