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Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…
Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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, than another man. But the thoughts of Death must needs be terrible, to a man that hath trifled away his life, and been an unthrift of his time. To think when you must dye, 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 than now you can imagine. What else is Death but ⟨p. 85⟩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 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 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, than another man. But the thoughts of Death must needs be terrible, to a man that hath trifled away his life, and been an unthrift of his time. To think when you must dye, that now you are at your last day or hour; and withall, 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 than now you can imagine. What else is Deaah but