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A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity…A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity…
A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.
London: printed by R.W. for Nev. Simmons, 1660
Sermon › Section 9 › Application 7 › Direction 6: DIRECTION VI.
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DIRECTION VI.
Redeeming time, is another means to prevent the hurtful fears of death. When we foreknow that it will shortly end our time, let us make the best of time while we have it. And then when we find that our work is done, and that we did not loiter nor lose the time that God vouchsafed us, the end of it will be less grievous to us. A man that studieth his duty, and spareth for no cost or pains, and is as loath to lose an hours time, as a covetous man is to lose an hundred pound, will look back on his life, and look before him to his death, with greater peace and less perplexity, then another man. But the thoughts of death must needs ⟨p. 131⟩be terrible, to a man that hath trifled away his life, and been an unthrift of his time. To think when you must die, that now you are at your last day or hour, and withal to think, how many hours you vainly lost, and that you knew not the worth of time till it was gone, will make death more bitter then now you can imagine. What else is Death but the ending of our Time? and what can be more necessary to a comfortable end, then faithfully to use it while we have it?
REdeeming time, is another means to prevent the hurtfull fears of death. When we foreknow that it will shortly end our time, let us make the best of time while we have it. And then when we find that our work is done, and that we did not loyter nor lose the time that God vouchsafed us, the end of it will be less grievous to us. A man that studieth his duty, and spareth for no cost or pains, and is as loath to lose an hours time, as a covetous man is to lose an hundred pound, will look back on his life, and look before him to his death, with greater peace and less perplexity, then another man. But the thoughts of death must needs