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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.
§. 64. Sort 3. It is specially incumbent on them to Redeem the Time, who have loitered and1 misspent much time already. If Conscience tell you that you have lost your youth in ignorance and vanity, and much of your age in negligence and worldliness, it is a double crime in you, if you Redeem not diligently the Time that is left. The just care of your salvation requireth it, unless you2 are willing to be damned: Ingenuity and duty to God requireth it; unless you will defy him, and resolve to abuse and despise him to the utmost, and spend all the time against him which he shall give ⟨p. 293⟩you. The nature of true Repentance requireth it; unless you will know none but the Repentance of the damned; and begin to Repent the misspending of your Time, when its gone, and all is too late.
§. 64. Sort 3. It is specially incumbent on them to Redeem the Time, who have loytered and1 mispent much time already. If Conscience tell you that you have lost your youth in ignorance and vanity, and much of your age in negligence and worldliness, it is a double crime in you, if you Redeem not diligently the Time that is left. The just care of your salvation requireth it, unless you2 are willing to be damned: Ingenuity and duty to God requireth it; unless you will defie him, and resolve to abuse and despise him to the utmost, and spend all the time against him which he shall give ⟨p. 293⟩you. The nature of true Repentance requireth it; unless you will know none but the Repentance of the damned; and begin to Repent the mispending of your Time, when its gone, and all is too late.