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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. The evening should be closed up with spiritual duties. If you ask what Duties? I answer.
1. The evening is a time for prayer, Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 1To this of prayer I join reading the Scripture, and good books; for it is fit to close up the day with the same duties wherewith we began it.
1. The evening is a time for prayer, Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 1To this of prayer I joyn reading the Scripture, and good books; for it is fit to close up the day with the same duties wherewith we began it.
2. The evening was Isaac's time for meditation: And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the even-tide. 1It may be in this Duty the morning is not so seasonable for some tempers; but shall the evening pass without some spiritual Holy meditations? Some conceive the evening to be the very season of set and deliberate meditation; and in this case how fruitful might I be in the use of that Ordinance of Looking unto Jesus, as he carries on the great work of our Salvation from first to last? O that this Duty of meditation, either on that, or any other spiritual subject, were not so neglected as it is by Christians themselves!