A25248:13
Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at…
Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at the funeral of the honourable lady, the Lady Margaret Houghton / by Isaac Ambrose.
London: printed for Rowland Reynolds, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. For the effect testifying of it, Redeeming the time. If I may open the words, 1. By time is meant opportunity; which either it taken for the whole course of our remaining life, or for such and such particular occasions as God doth offer to this or that particular duty; and both these may be understood here. 2. By Redeeming the time, is meant either the avoiding of some hinderances, which would take us off from the opportunity; or the recompensing of some former unfruitfulness, which hath been in the former part of our life: or a gaining, stretching, improving of time by embracing all the occasions of doing all the good we can do: and we shall discover anon, that all these may be understood here. In the mean time we lay down this Position as a necessary, fundamental, Evangelical truth, that time must be Redeemed Look to it all ye that fear God; herein will your spiritual Wisdom, and exact walking appear, even in Redeeming the time.
3. For the effect testifying of it, Redeeming the time. If I may open the words, 1. By time is meant oppertunity; which either it taken for the whole course of our remaining life, or for such and such particular occasions as God doth offer to this or that particular duty; and both these may be understood here. 2. By Redeeming the time, is meant either the avoiding of some hinderances, which would take us off from the opportunity; or the recompencing of some former unfruitfulness, which hath been in the former part of our life: or a gaining, streching, improving of time by embracing all the occasions of doing all the good we can do: and we shall discover anon, that all these may be understood here. In the mean time we lay down this Position as a necessary, fundamental, Evangelical truth, that time must be Redeemed Look to it all ye that fear God; herein will your spiritual Wisedom, and exact walking appear, even in Redeeming the time.
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