...ruin; they promise to hear at a more convenient season: they demand time for moving: 'A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.' Hence we may account for many objections that are made to our labours. The sermon is too long, or too...

...these motives, is not the speech of the sluggard the very language of our conduct? " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." The most supine indifference, where all possible diligence is but just sufficient ! This, you must...

...these motives, is not the speech of the sluggard the very language of our conduct? ' A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. 'f The most supine * Prov. vi. s. 1 There is, if I mistake not, a Dice gradation in this speech of...

...what cruel deceits will sin land us in ! and how artfully it pleads for a " little more sleep, and a little more slumber; a little more folding of the hands to sleep." We should hold out no longer, nor make not such an abuse of the forbearance of God: we will treasure...

...previously warned cither of God or man, that trials and dangers are at hand ; and yet may say in his heart, "A little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to rest." Now, if such an one afterwards full, though unawares, into the snare which he might have avoided,...

...with decay, and his children were crying for bread. Yet I heard the wretch exclaim, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber ; a little more folding of the hands to sleep." Surely, said I, this is the dwelling of misery and despair. Such is the idle husbandman. Look at the...

...draws back from the yoke; yet I stretch myself upon the bed of sloth, and cry out for " a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." (Prov. vi. 10.) Thus does my corrupt heart plead for its own indulgence, against the conviction of...

...! 12. Poverty and want struck at the root of Sloth also. It was now no time to say, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to rest." If a man would not work now, it is plain he could not eat. All the pains he could take were...

...in your ears, and has left you as it found you, crying in half-articulated sounds, " A little " more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the " hands to sleep." You have been tenants of the tomb, and have slumbered over the pit of destruction. If you are not lifeless,...

...every messenger of God, to every friendly monitor you reply, I pray thee have me excused. A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. Here then is one great difficulty, which opposes your conversion. And is there not great reason to...