A25478:1755
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
Answ. 1. Not time, man! What! not to pray! How justly might ⟨p. 356⟩God say,1 Thou shalt die this day, and thou shalt have no time to pray, no, nor to trade neither; nor to sport and game neither. Thou hast time; what dost thou do with it all? Twenty, forty years are a great deal of time, and much might be done therein; but canst thou find no time out of so many years to pray in thine house? Thou findest time to trade and work and eat and drink and sleep, yea and to sin too; and yet hast thou no time to pray? Doth God give thee and thy Family all the time that thou and they have, and shall God have none of it? Oh, ungrateful sinner! Oh, unthankful wretch! let the heavens be astonished, and the Earth amazed: the one, that they give light and influence to such a monster; and the other to bear such a burden, a man so loaden, with such impiety.
Answ. 1. Not time, man! What! not to pray! How justly might ⟨p. 356⟩God say,1 Thou shalt die this day, and thou shalt have no time to pray, no, nor to trade neither; nor to sport and game neither. Thou hast time; what dost thou do with it all? Twenty, fourty years are a great deal of time, and much might be done therein; but canst thou find no time out of so many years to pray in thine house? Thou findest time to trade and work and eat and drink and sleep, yea and to sin too; and yet hast thou no time to pray? Doth God give thee and thy Family all the time that thou and they have, and shall God have none of it? Oh, ungrateful sinner! Oh, unthankful wretch! let the heavens be astonished, and the Earth amazed: the one, that they give light and influence to such a monster; and the other to bear such a burthen, a man so loaden, with such impiety.
- 1Alium insatiabilis tenet avaritia; all um in supervacuis laboribus ope•osa sedulitas; al•us vino madet; inertia torpet; alium mercandi praeceps cupiditas circa omnes terras, omnia maria, spe lucri ducit: nemo invenitu, qui pecuniam suam divider velit; vitam unusquisque quam multis distribuit: astricti sunt in continendo patrimonio; simul ad temporis jctram vn um est, profusssii in eo cujus unius honesta avaritia est. Senec. de brevvit.