...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 of my better judgment....

...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 of my better judgment....

...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 you ; " the fool foldeth...

...the king of terrors flash upon you ? How long will it be ere you cease from saying, " A little sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ? Awake ; for eternity, for heaven and hell is opening upon you. Soon you •will enter upon the enjoyments...

...woe, and sees the gloomy prospect before him— the grove opening to swallow 216 eamxriAH PHILOSOPHY him up, and the possibility of something terrible..." Sleep on, now, and take your rest." Your sun is set, to rise no more. Death's scythed, triumphal car, drives on rapidly, and mows down all that stand...

...beyond it. If we are but animals, then are we of all animals most miserable! Since a religious LETHAHGY is thus degrading to our nature, thus productive of..." Sleep on, now, and take your rest." Your sun is set, to rise no more. Death's scythed, triumphal car, drives on rapidly, and mows down all that stand...

...our own souls, or stretching ourselves upon the bed of sloth, calling for " ;i " little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little " more folding of the hands to sleep;" we may be hurried from our vain dreams, to a state where there is no deceit, no imposition, no respite;...

...own power; so that the idea of self-sufficiency naturally leads to indolence, and carnal security. A little more sleep, and a little more slumber; a little more self-indulgence, and gratification of carnal appetites, is the wish of the spiritual sluggard. But...

...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 thus, he must have...

...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 labourer, when awakened...