 | Easy and familiar sermons - Religious life - 1830 - 176 pages
...happy you'll appear, Nor e'er to sin will yield. ON IDLE CURIOSITY. 1 Timothy, Chap. v. verse 13. " And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about...to house ; and not only idle but tattlers also, and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not." IDLE curiosity and a desire of useful knowledge... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 558 pages
...that religion will excuse a man from bodily labour; and under the colour of devotion to live idly. "They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but tatlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not;" 2 Thess. iii. 8. 1 Tim. v. 13.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 554 pages
...that religion will excuse a man from bodily labour ; and under the colour of devotion to live idly. " They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but tatlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not;" 2 Thess. iii. 8. 1 Tim. v. 13.... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...whisperings, and backbiting*, and slanders — " Withal they learn to Ibe idle, wandering from house to to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things they ought not." What is the prevention of these vices, and a thousand more? Is the Apostle too severe?... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...some backsliders as " having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith ;" and adds, " and withal they learn to be idle, wandering about...and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not."2 Backbiting is a sin which is ranked in the Scriptures with the most atrocious crimes. In the... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...that ye may have lack of nothing." It speaks, in language of not unmerited severity, of those who " learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house...busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." Labor, therefore, whatever the indolent, the i purse-proud, the slave-driver, and the petted child... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 612 pages
...that religion will excuse a man from bodily labor ; and under the color of devotion to live idly. " They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but tatlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not ; 2 Thess. iii. 8. 1 Tim. v. 13.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 622 pages
...that religion will excuse a man from bodily labor; and under the color of devotion to live idly. " They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but tatlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not ; 2 Thess. iii. 8. 1 Tim. v. 13.... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pages
...against Christ, they will marry ; 12 Having damnation, becuuse they have cast oft' their first faith. 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about...busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not. 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...also shalt be ashamed of Egypt. Je. ii. 36. ( The younger widows) having cast off their first faith, learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house...busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 I'i- v. 13. Teach the young women to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, &c. Tit. ii. 5. 2 Shechem.]... | |
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And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 
