...to-day, while it is called today ; and let no man say with the sluggard, ' a little more sleep and a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.' Life ebbs apace. The day is far spent to many of us. The night is at hand, when the sad licence may...

...dozing professor. O; how they hold fast deceit, and refuse to return ! The language of their hearts is, a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. God often grants such the desires of their hearts, and lets them sleep until the pangs of death take...

...the same spirit ! 12. Poyerty and want struck at the root of sloth also. It was now no time to say, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to rest." If a man would not work now, it was plain he could not eat. All the pains he could take were...

...O what cruel deceits will sin land us in! and how artfully it pleads for a " little more sleep, and a little more slumber ; a little more folding of the hands to sleep." We should hold out no longer, nor make not such an abuse of the forbearance of God : we will treasure...

...warned either of God or man, that trials and dangers are at hand ; and yet may say in his heart, " A little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to rest." Now, if such a one afterwards fall, though unawares, into the snare which he might have avoided,...

...their future safety and blessedness. But be the danger of delay more or less imminent, they still covet a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. If the result of their delay is perdition, all this danger they intend to risk. 3. Others perhaps refuse...

...while, ever as God and eternity exclaimed aloud, " Awake, thou that sleepest," the dreamer answered, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep !"—and so on thousands has ruin " come as one that travelleth, and destruction like an armed man."...

...employed;—employed upon suitable objects and in a proper manner.— If the sluggard who is always calling out for " a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," finds nothing in his experience that deserves the name of happiness, surely the wretch who is active...

...guardians of public morals all this time? Were they, like Rip Van Winkle, sleeping comfortably, crying " A little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep?" Or did they, like the people of Lilliput, entertain a wholesome distrust of their power to put down...

...motives, is not the speech ii! the sluggard the very language of our conduct ? "A little more sleep, л little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." The most »opine indifference, where all possible diligence is but just sufficient! This, учи must...