A34165:417
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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11. Give not way to a formal, heartless, seeming Religiousness, customariness, without the life: but keep your souls in a continual seriousness and awakedness about God, immortality, and your great concernment. If Duty be dead, take heed lest that incline you to a deadness in another, and so grow a customary deadness. Take heed of spiritual slothfulness, that makes you keep your hands in your bosom, when you should be doing for your soul; stir up to, and in duty, when you have but little time for life eternal: do not pray as if you prayed not, nor hear as though you heard not; but when upon Duty, doing Gods service, do it with all the seriousness and vigour you can. To grow lazy and negligent is the declining way: use such considerations as may stir you up, Rom. 12.11. Tit. 2.14.
11. Give not way to a formal, heartless, seeming Religiousness, customariness, without the life: but keep your souls in a continual seriousness and awakedness about God, immortality, and your great concernment. If Duty be dead, take heed lest that incline you to a deadness in another, and so grow a customary deadness. Take heed of spiritual sloathfulness, that makes you keep your hands in your bosome, when you should be doing for your soul; stir up to, and in duty, when you have but little time for life eternal: do not pray as if you prayed not, nor hear as though you heard not; but when upon Duty, doing Gods service, do it with all the seriousness and vigour you can. To grow lazy and negligent is the declining way: use such considerations as may stir you up, Rom. 12.11. Tit. 2.14.
12. Remember always the worth of time, and greatness of your work, and therefore so value time, as not negligently or slothfully to lose a moment; it will quickly be gone, and when you are at the last, you will better know its worth: hearken to no temptation that will draw you to any trifling, abusing, wasting of your precious time; if thou hast no argument against thy sports, trifling pleasures, &c. but this, it loses my time, take it for a greater argument then if it lose thee thy money, friends, or any thing in the world, your youth, your morning hours, especially the Lords day; lose not any part of it, but improve it with your selves and families; lose not a moment of the Lords day, nor any of thy precious time, thou canst spare and redeem: if thou hast lost any be humbled for it, and be careful to redeem the rest: look back; do you approve of the time that is past? could you not have spent it better? remember what you have, let that quicken you; look before you, remember what is to be done, and do the first which must be done; and then leave trifles to that time you have to spare: it is ignorance and idleness, and not want of work, that makes any think they have time to spare,