...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...

...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...

...comes, 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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. » Hence we may account for many objections that are made to our labours. The...

...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...