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The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
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.
You will not suffer impertinences to interrupt your counsels, and serious business in the world: You'll tell intruders, that you are busy, and cannot have while to attend them. And are you going into Heaven or Hell, and have but a few days time of preparation (God knows […]) and yet can you have while to pass this precious […] vain? O what would you not give ere long for one of the hours that you now mis-spend? When the oath is performed, Rev. 10.6. [That Time shall be no longer.] Wonderful! that men can find Time for any thing, save that for which they had their time! Non tam bene vivant, sed quamdiu confiderant (inquit Seneca) cum omnibus p•ssit contingere ut bene vivant; ut diu nulli.] To live well is both possible and necessary, and yet is disregarded: To live long, is neither possible, nor necessary; and yet is sought by almost all. Incipiunt vivere cum definendum est: immo quidam ante desierunt vivere, quam inciperent. Sen. It's unseasonable we should begin to live, when we should make an end: but it's most unhappy to have made an end, before they do ⟨p. 68⟩begin: Pulchrum est (inquit idem) consummare vitam ante mortem; & expectare secure reliquam temporis partem.] Do the great work, and then you may comfortably spend the rest in waiting for the conclusion. Yet you have time, and leave, and helps: you may read, and meditate, and pray, if you will: but shortly Time will be no more. O let not Satan insult over your carcasses and tormented souls, and say, [Now it is too late! Now murmur and repent as long as you will! Now pray, and cry, and spare no•!] O use that Faith which beholdeth the invisible world, and maketh future things as present, and then delay and loiter if you can: Then waste your hours in idleness or vanity if you dare! either light or fire shall awake you.
You will not suffer impertinencies to interrupt your counsels, and serious business in the world: You'l tell intruders, that you are busie, and cannot have while to attend them. And are you going into Heaven or Hell, and have but a few daies time of preparation (God knows 〈…〉) and yet can you have while to pass this precious 〈…〉 vain? O what would you not give ere long for one of the hours that you now mis-spend? When the oath is performed,