 | John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 էջ
...any time any 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...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 - 1799 - 200 էջ
...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...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 - 1850 - 204 էջ
...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...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 - 1805 - 506 էջ
...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...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 - 1805 - 504 էջ
...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 - 1805 - 304 էջ
...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 —... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 էջ
...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 էջ
...in the plain of Ona But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, es shall they have to dwell in ; and the suburbs of...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.... | |
 | 1813 - 500 էջ
...by Rev. Oliver Cobb, of Rochester, from Nehemiah vi. 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." ORDINATION. ORDAINED, at Utica, NY on the, 4th Feb. the Rev. KENRYDWIGHT, late of Springfield, Mass.... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1813 - 460 էջ
...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....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... | |
| |
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? 
