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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.
§. 24. Direct. 17. Consider that in your loss of Time, you lose all the mercies of that time. For1 Time is pregnant with great unvaluable mercies: It is the Cabinet that containeth the Jewels: If you throw away the purse, you throw away the money that is in it: O what might you get in those precious hours which you cast away? How much better a treasure than money might you win? How much sweeter a pleasure than all your Games and Sports might you enjoy: You might be soliciting ⟨p. 282⟩God for life eternal! You might be using and increasing grace! You might be viewing by faith, the blessed place and company in which you may abide for ever. All this and more, you are lo•ing while you are losing time. You choose as a pleasure that heavy curse, Levit. 26. 20. Your strength shall •e spent in vain. Why do you not also take it for a pleasure, to cast away your gold, or health? I tell you, a very little time, is w•rth a great deal of Gold and Silver. You cast away a more precious commodity.
§. 24. Direct. 17. Consider that in your loss of Time, you lose all the mercies of that time. For1 Time is pregnant with great unvaluable mercies: It is the Cabinet that containeth the Iewels: If you throw away the purse, you throw away the money that is in it: O what might you get in those precious hours which you cast away? How much better a treasure than money might you win? How much sweeter a pleasure than all your Games and Sports might you enjoy: You might be soliciting ⟨p. 282⟩God for life eternal! You might be using and increasing grace! You might be viewing by faith, the bles••d place and company in which you may abide for ever. All this and more, you are lo•ing while you are losing time. You choose as a pleasure that heavy curse,