 | Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1851 - 702 pages
...give the sring to their lusts after these. (2.) A sluggish despair, Prov. xxii. 13, " The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." Their sloth musters up difficulties to them, forming some that are groundless, imaginary ones, and... | |
 | John Owen - 1851 - 668 pages
...Heartlessness upon the apprehensions of difficulties and discouragements. Prov. xxii. 13, " The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." Every difficulty deters him from duty. He thinks it impossible for him to attain to that accuracy,... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1851 - 672 pages
...Heartlessness upon the apprehensions of difficulties and discouragements. Prov. xxii. 13, " The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." Every difficulty deters him from duty. He thinks it impossible for him to attain to that accuracy,... | |
 | Harriet Rebecca King - 1852 - 332 pages
...to discourage the servants of God by speaking evil of the ways of true religion. " The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." (Prov. xxii. 13.) This proverb conveys a lively portraiture of the way in which the spies sent out by Moses discouraged... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 1070 pages
...of. headachs ; ' i. «., the lazy always fiud some excuse for neglecting duty — ' The slothful man saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.' 'The trap has taken two birds :' ' Fell two dogs with one bone.' ' Two dugs do not let a fox escape:'... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. 13. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. 14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit : he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.... | |
 | 1852 - 800 pages
...of headaches ;" that is, the lazy always find some excuse for neglecting duty : " The slothful man saith, There is a lion without ; I shall be slain in the streets." " The trap has taken two birds :" " Fell two dogs with ono bone." "Two dogs do not let a fox escape... | |
 | 1853 - 1172 pages
...desire for overrating difficulties, are further accompaniments of a slothful spirit. " The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." (Prov. xxii. 13.) Those, however, who hearken to the Lord, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth 'the words of the transgressor. 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. 14 The liiinii Ji of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...good deal of humour, when he represents the slothful man, as saying in excuse for his idleness — " There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." Something as improbable, as that he should meet a lion in the streets, restrain him from action, or... | |
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The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. 
