...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 > why should...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...

...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...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...

...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 of the...

...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...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...

...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...

...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 —...

...in the folly of the world? What — . but the wise answer of the Jewish chief — " I am " doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; " .why should the work cease whilst I leave " it?" What more worthy of his ministry, uiore respectable in the eyes of men, then not to suffer himself...

...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...

...of Ona But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a have to dwell in ; and the suburbs of diem shall...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....

...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...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...