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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 › Tit. 5. On whom this duty of Redeeming Time, is principally incumbent.
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.
§. 63. Sort 2. Necessity maketh it incumbent on the weak and sick and aged in a special manner1 to Redeem their Time. If they will not make much of it that are sure to have but a little; and if they will trifle and loiter it away, that know they are near their journeys end, and ready to give up their accounts, they are unexcusable above all others. A Thief or Murderer will pray and speak good words when he is going out of the World. Well may it be said to you, as Paul doth, Rom. 13. 11, 12. Now it is high time to awake out of sleep; when your salvation or damnation is so near! It is high time for that man to look about him, and prepare his soul, and lose no time, that is so speedily to appear before the most Holy God, and be used for ever as he hath lived here.
§. 63. Sort 2. Necessity maketh it incumbent on the weak and sick and aged in a special manner1 to Redeem their Time. If they will not make much of it that are sure to have but a little; and if they will trifle and loyter it away, that know they are near their journeys end, and ready to give up their accounts, they are unexcusable above all others. A Thief or Murderer will pray and speak good words when he is going out of the World. Well may it be said to you, as Paul doth, Rom. 13. 11, 12. Now it is high time to awake out of sleep; when your salvation or damnation is so near! It is high time for that man to look about him, and prepare his soul, and lose no time, that is so speedily to appear before the most Holy God, and be used for ever as he hath lived here.
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§. 64. Sort 3. It is specially incumbent on them to Redeem the Time, who have loitered and