 | Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 644 pages
...foolish heart 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%. Thus does my corrupt heart plead for its own indulgence, against the convictions... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1802 - 626 pages
...foolish heart 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\. Thus does my corrupt heart plead for its own indulgence, against the convictions... | |
 | Thomas Haweis - Evangelicalism - 1803 - 344 pages
...with what reluctance do you rise ? It is too soon, it is too cold, saith every man's natural sloth. "A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ;" (Prov. xxi v. 33.) necessity urges you to rise : but the same temper follows... | |
 | Nathan Elliot - Grace (Theology) - 1808 - 318 pages
...Thus deceived by the love of sin, you are in your spiritual concerns, crying, with the sluggard, ' A little more sleep a little more slumber; a little more folding of the hands to sleep ;' all shall yet be well. But had Lot persisted in deceiving himself, by arguing... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pages
...keep from hearing it, so far it works ' irre' sistibly* upon him ; but his slothful desire after ' a ' little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little ' more folding of the hands to sleep *,' hinders him from complying with it, as does the willing, active, industrious... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...you in your graves, " Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment," do not regard him; but calmly say, " Yet a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." When Christ calls to you by name, " How is it that I hear this of thee? give... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...uprightly, and not consult with his sloth in the case, for that will still, with Solomon.s sluggard, cry, a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep, Prov. xxii. 33. (p. Another pious writer (in the Christian Observer, 1804. p.... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 416 pages
...him in the day of the Lord's wrath;" anoiher appears utterly secure and indifferent ; lie is asking "a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," as if this momentary ease could profit him at the hazard of never-ending confusion... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 664 pages
...lead them from 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. ยป Hence we may account for many objections that are made to our labours. The... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...and indolence, to relapse into evil habits, like the sluggard upon his bed, who requireth always " a little more sleep, a little more " slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." Let us arise at the first admonition, because, that being rejected, God may... | |
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