...NEHEMIAH'S FIRMNESS. 275 CCCCXLII. NEHEMIAH'S FIRMNESS. Neh. vi. 3, 4. / sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort ; and I answered them after the same manner. NEVER...

...villages in the plain of Ono.* But they thought to do mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...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 the same manner. 5...

...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...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 to be...

...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 to be...

...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....cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you."— NEHEMIAH vi. 3. THIS servant of God had come down from Babylon to rebuild the temple and re-establish...

...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 important...

...loiterers and the gay triflers of the age, as Nehemiah said to those who were disposed to interrupt him, ' I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?' Keeping this object in view, you will be habitually watchful and prayerful. You will hear that oracle...

...in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, .w7p.w7 ? 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner. 5...

...loiterers and the gay triflers of the age, as Nehemiah said to those who were disposed to interrupt him, ' I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down;...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?' Keeping this object in view, you will be habitually watchful and prayerful. You will hear that oracle...

...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 you ;" though this...