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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
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Part 1 › Chapter 5 › Tit. 5. On whom this duty of Redeeming Time, is principally incumbent.
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Tit. 5. On whom this duty of Redeeming Time, is principally incumbent.
§. 62. Though the Redeeming of Time be a duty of grand importance and necessity to all, yet all these sorts following have special obligations to it.
§. 62. THough the Redeeming of Time be a duty of grand importance and necessity to all, yet all these sorts following have special obligations to it.
Sort. 1. Those that are in the youth and vigour of their Time; nature is not yet so much corrupted in1 you, as in old accustomed sinners: your hearts are not so much hardened: sin is not so deeply rooted and confirmed: Satan hath not triumphed in so many victories: you are not yet plunged so deep as others, into worldly incumbrances and cares: your understanding, memory and strength are in their vigour, and do not yet fail you? And who should go fastest, or work hardest but he that hath the greatest strength? You may now get more by diligence in a day, than hereafter you can get in many: How few prove good Scholars, or wise men that begin not to learn till they are old? Fly youthful lusts therefore, 2 Tim. 2. 22. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, Eccl. 12. 1. If you be now trained up in the way you should go, you will not depart from it when you are old, Prov 22. 6. O that you could but know what an unspeakable advantage, and benefit, and comfort it is, to come to a ripe age with the provisions and furniture of that wisdom, and holiness, and acquaintance with God, which should be attained in your youth? and what a misery it is to be then to learn that which you should have been many years before in practising, and to be then to begin to live when you must make an end? much more to be cast to Hell, if death should find you unready in your youth? or to be forsaken of God to a hardened age! Happy they that with Timothy and Obadiah, do learn the Scripture and fear God in their Childhood, and from their youth,