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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 5 › The Directions contemplative for Redeeming Time.
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.
§. 13. Direct. 6. Remember also that when Judgement comes, God will call you to account, both for 1every hour of your misspent Time, and for all the Good which you should have done in all that time, and did it not. If you must give account for every idle word, then sure for every idle hour: Matth. 12. 36. And if we must be judged according to all the talents we have received, and the improvement of them required of us, then certainly for so precious a talent as our Time. Mat. 25. And how should that man spend his Time that believeth he must give such account of all? Even to the most just and Holy God, who will judge all men according to their works; and cause them all to reap as they have sowed. O spend your Time as you would hear of it in Judgement.
§. 13. Direct. 6. Remember also that when Iudgement comes, God will call you to account, both for 1every hour of your mispent Time, and for all the Good which you should have done in all that time, and did it not. If you must give account for every idle word, then sure for every idle hour: Matth. 12. 36. And if we must be judged according to all the talents we have received, and the improvement of them required of us, then certainly for so precious a talent as our Time. Mat. 25. And how should that man spend his Time that believeth he must give such account of all? Even to the most just and Holy God, who will judge all men according to their works; and cause them all to reap as they have sowed. O spend your Time as you would hear of it in Judgement.
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