Thief I: One of the greatest time-wasting sins consists of idleness or sloth.
Thief II: The next thief or time-waster is excess of sleep.
Thief III: The next thief or time-waster is an inordinate adorning of the body.
Thief IV: Another time-wasting thief is unnecessary pomp and curiosity in retinue, attendance, house furniture, provision and entertainments, together with excess of compliment and ceremony, and servitude to the humors and expectations of time-wasters.
Thief V: Another time-wasting sin is needless and tedious feastings, gluttony, and tippling. (Tippling - drinking)
Thief VI:Another time-waster is idle talk.
Thief VII: Another thief which by the aforesaid means would steal your time, is vain and sinful company.
Thief VIII: Another notorious time-wasting thief, is needless, inordinate sports and games, which are stigmatized by the offenders themselves, with the infamous name of pastimes, and masked with deceitful title of recreations;
Thief IX:Another time-wasting thief is excess of worldly cares and business.
Thief X: Another time-waster is vain ungoverned and sinful thoughts.
Thief XI: Another dangerous time-waster sin is the reading of vain books , play-books, romances, and feigned histories; and also unprofitable studies, undertaken but for vain-glory, or the pleasing of a carnal or curious mind.
Thief XII: But the master-thief that robs men of their time is an unsancitified , ungodly heart; for this loseth time whatever men are doing; because they never intend the glory of God;
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Time Wasters
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) Time-Wasters
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6 comments:
Oh the times I have been convicted when wanting to rush to my Facebook account..when I know I should start my day in The Word.
He forgot t.v and the internet.
Just kidding!
We do waste time don't we?
How does God view it? That's what matters.
God bless.
BW, Oh, how I love Richard Baxter's writings! How pertinent and "right on" to our day this is. I'm going to use this as a mirror in my own life and that of our family this week. Thanks so much for sharing it!
Oh, and I clicked on the link to the "Widow's Might" preview, which was wonderful--somehow we still haven't seen this great movie, though we've been wanting to for awhile. Little by little I'm catching up on the past posts of yours which I'd missed--really enjoying it.
Thanks again!
Wendy
Leigh,
A book I read years ago was "Tyranny of The Urgent", the idea was about how we let the seemingly urgent override and keep us from the really important. Bible reading daily is really important, as we all know, but it is not really urgent. We think we can survive just fine without reading the Bible but the urgent things scream for our attention.
Berean Wife
Dora,
I guess the TV and internet would have fallen under amusements. Although it does seem that they didn't have as much easy amusement around then as we do now.
I imagine the Lord is grieved over much of what we think is important and worthy of our time, right down to much of what the average church is doing.
Berean Wife
Wendy,
I was just reading over a file of Baxter's The Practical Works and I'm amazed at just the table of contents. I am hoping to find time to read more of his works.
My kids saw in a catalog the video The Widows Mite and pointed it out to me. We haven't seen the movie (movie theaters have issues even if not the actual movie) but might get the video. We had watched lots of video clips of the movie and they all enjoyed it.
Berean Wife
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