The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

At least if it discover not our present sensuality, ⟨p. 315⟩it discovers our former Sloth, and Idleness. It may be, we may excuse our averseness to dye, by our unpreparedness, that is one fault with another (though that be besides the case I am speaking of) what then have we been doing all this while? What were the affairs of thy Soul not thought of till now? Take then thy repro of from a Heathen, that it may convince thee the more. No one, saith he divides away his money from himself, but yet men divide away their very life— but doth it not shame thee (he after adds) to reserve only the relics of thy life to thy self, and to devote that time only to a good mind, which thou canst employ upon no other thing? How late is it to begin to live when we should make an end? and defer all good thoughts to such an Age as possible few do ever reach to. The truth is (as he speaks) we have not little time but we lose much we have time enough were it well employed therefore we cannot say we receive a short life but we make it so, we are not indigent of time, but prodigal, what a pretty contradiction is it to complain of the shortness of time, and yet do what we can to precipitate its course? to hasten it by that we call pastime. If it have been so with thee art thou to be trusted with more time?

At least if it discover not our present sensuality, ⟨p. 315⟩it discovers our former Sloth, and Idleness. It may be, we may excuse our aversness to dye, by our unpreparedness, that is one fault with another (though that be besides the case I am speaking of) what then have we been doing all this while? What were the affairs of thy Soul not thought of till now? Take then thy repro of from a Heathen, that it may convince thee the more. No one, saith he divides away his money from himself, but yet men divide away their very life— but doth it not shame thee (he after adds) to reserve only the reliques of thy life to thy self, and to devote that time only to a good mind, which thou canst employ upon no other thing? How late is it to begin to live when we should make an end? and deser all good thoughts to such an Age as possible few do ever reach to. The truth is (as he speaks) we have not little time but we lose much we have time enough were it well employ'd therefore we cannot say we receive a short life but we make it so, we are not indigent of time, but prodigal, what a pretty contradiction is it to complain of the shortness of time, and yet do what we can to precipitate its course? to hasten it by that we call pastime. If it have been so with thee art thou to be trusted with more time?