...request tf the Boani. BOSTON: BT CROCKER AHD BDEWRTEB, NIL SO, Corahill. 1823. SERMON. NEHEMIAH vi, 3. AND I SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THEM, SAYING, I AM DOING...THAT I CANNOT COME DOWN. WHY SHOULD THE WORK CEASE, WHILE I LEAVE IT, AND COME DOWN TO YOU? WHILE Nehemiah was residing at the Persian court, at a distance...

...dismiss them as did the restorer of the holy city, when he was tempted to abandon its rising ramparts : " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ?" Thus to be absorbed in your office will not be to be contracted, but enlarged , it will not be to...

...in others, must be avoided by him who would prosper. He must adopt, in general, Nehemiah's words, " 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 ?" He should, as to many things, even right in themselves,...

...unnecessary self-defence. Incessant public and pastoral duties compel me to say, like Nehemiah of old, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" I have not adopted those views of the Christian system which I profess and teach, without careful examination,...

...hold on your way, as Job expresses himself and tells Satan ; * and as Nehemiah said to Samballat, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down,...work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ?"f So do you, mind heart-work and hand-work, be intent on the work and worship of God ; hold on in...

...progress already made. What shall be the answer with which every heart among you should be prepared ? / am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you ? Ye do not lightly yield to the seductions that lie in wait to detach you from worldly employments...

...thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unte them, saying, 1 ant doing a great work, so that 1 u III!. flllu 111;' и 1.1 ч 1-.П1 I., allu lu 3I1UII J'Ul priest »hall shut up h ? f 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort ; am! 1 answered them after the same manner....

...meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that 1 cannot come down : why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? 4 Yet they...

...laid upon me; yea, woe is me if I preach not the gospel." My times are not my own. Like Neheminh, " I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down'." I hope, therefore, that my unknown friends,' " WF" and " Onesimus," will kindly excuse my rudeness...

...— every grace called into action. Our reply to every temptation, should be that of Nehemiah — " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." "Always abounding in the work of the Lord," should be our motto. Beloved Christian labourer! you have...