Idleness and Sloth: False Excuses For

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Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 22:13
The slothful man said, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
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Library

Treatise on the Priesthood. Book iv.
... are not only useful to us, for the overthrow of false doctrine and the ... Such arguments
are mere makeshifts and pretexts, the marks of idleness and sloth. ...
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One Lion Two Lions no Lion at All
... They have a very comfortable bed of sloth upon which they lie ... him on purpose to be
the ally of his idleness. ... are full of faults: all of them are false." You do ...
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The Sluggard's Reproof
... Yet, while the fact of the superabundance of idleness in the ... for you know that what
you are saying is false. ... and God help you to shake off your sloth and may ...
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On Sleeping in Church
... they are absent upon the account of idleness, or spleen ... the service of a faction,
to put false colours upon ... That this indecent sloth is very much owing to that ...
/.../swift/three sermons three prayers/on sleeping in church.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... to be waited for, [1015]393; forbade idleness, [1016]394 ... Evil-speaking, true or false,
against superiors brings harm to ... Excuses, vain and inconsistent, [1341]388 ...
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The Strait Gate;
... Idleness clothes a man with rags, and the vineyard of ... All their pleas, excuses, and
tears will not make them ... A hypocrite, a false professor, may go a great way ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the strait gate.htm

The Battle of Life
... Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the ... At one time there comes the torpor
of sloth, when one ... can give the man that is prone to idleness such an ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/the battle of life.htm

Vile Ingratitude!
... That god may be his sloth. ... we have gone to God's book to feign apologies for our
idleness. Was not that taking his mercies and sacrificing them to false deities ...
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Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... sayings to the dull hearers, [268]82; why used often the sign of Jonas, [269]ib.;
knew and trusted not false disciples, [270 ... Excuses of the negligent, [880]38. ...
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Book ii.
... Apion also tells a false story, when he mentions an oath ... have we neglected them either
out of sloth or for a ... need only marry them as also what excuses they may ...
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Subtopics

Idleness

Idleness and Sloth: Accompanied by Conceit

Idleness and Sloth: Akin to Extravagance

Idleness and Sloth: Athenians

Idleness and Sloth: Effects of, Afford Instruction to Others

Idleness and Sloth: False Excuses For

Idleness and Sloth: Forbidden

Idleness and Sloth: Illustrated

Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Bondage

Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Disappointment

Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Hunger