Secondly, The Prevention of Sorrow thereby, shows, That it is Wisdom for men to discern and improve their Time. It is great Wisdom to prevent great Sorrow. Now nothing in the world fills the heart of man more with Anguish ⟨p. 71⟩and Anger, than the Missing of Time. When a man has missed his Time for his Work, it causeth an unspeakable Regret within him. We read of some professors, who missed their […] to Entertain Christ Jesus and His Mercy: with what a marvellous Agony did they cry out, in Matth. 25. 11. Lord, Lord, open to us! Well might they be called Foolish, who thus cam• too late. The horror of it being once only Represented by some profane people, who acted the Foolish Virgins in a Play, at a City in Germany, it even killed a Prince that was a Spectator of it. Tis impossible to utter the Confusion which the slipping of time does put the souls of men into. When Esau had missed his Time to procure a Blessing for himself, how did he resent it? We are told in Gen. 27. 34. He cried with a great and exceeding bitter Cry. Alas, how should it be otherwise? The slipping of Time is an Ill, and an exceeding bitter thing. There are but two sorts of men; both of them find the Loss of time, to prove at some time or other, a sad, an evil, a troublesome thing unto them, 'Tis thus especially when their time is come to Die, when their time is to be no more. As for Good men, the Loss of time usually strews Thorns on their Beds when they come to die. It grieves the best man to think, My Time, my Time, I have not so laid it out for God as I should have done. He was a painful & a pious Minister of the Gospel, ⟨p. 72⟩who yet breathed out this among his last, Groans, O the Loss of Time! it […] on my spirit now. As for Bad men, the Loss of Time flash• Hell fire into their spirits when they come to Dy. It causes terrible wounds▪ and pains in the departing soul of a Sinner to think I had, once a Time to Believe, a Time to Repe•t, a Time to lay up for Eternity, but now my Time is gone for ever. The sh••ek of a poor man going out of the world sometimes has been, A would of Wealth for an inch of Time. […], tis Wisdom to prevent such things as these.
Secondly, The Prevention of Sorrow thereby, shewes, That it is Wisdom for men to discern and improve their Time. It is great Wisdom to prevent great Sorrow. Now nothing in the world fills the heart of man more with Anguish ⟨p. 71⟩and Anger, than the Missing of Time. When a man has missed his Time for his Work, it causeth an unspeakable Regret within him. We read of some professors, who missed their 〈…〉 to Entertain Christ Jesus and His Mercy: with what a marvellous Agony did they cry out, in Matth. 25. 11. Lord, Lord, open to us! Well might they be called Foolish, who thus cam• too late. The horrour of it being once only Represented by some profane people, who acted the Foolish Virgins in a Play, at a City in Germany, it even kill'd a Prince that was a Spectator of it. Tis impossible to utter the Confusion which the slipping of time does put the souls of men into. When Esau had missed his Time to procure a Blessing for himself, how did he resent it? We are told in Gen. 27. 34. He cry'd with a great and exceeding bitter Cry. Alas, how should it be otherwise? The slipping of Time is an Ill, and an exceeding bitter thing. There are but two sorts of men; both of them find the Loss of time, to prove at some time or other, a sad, an evil, a troublesome thing unto them, 'Tis thus esqecially when their time is come to Dy, when their time is to be no more. As for Good men, the Loss of time usually strowes Thorns on their Beds when they come to dy. It grieves the best man to think, My Time, my Time, I have not so laid it out for God as I should have done. He was a painful & a pious Minister of the Gospel, ⟨p. 72⟩who yet breathed out this among his last, Groans, O the Loss of Time! it 〈…〉 on my spirit now. As for Bad men, the Loss of Time flash• Hell fire into their spirits when they come to Dy. It causes terrible wounds▪ and pains in the departing soul of a Sinner to think I had, once a Time to Beleeve, a Time to Repe•t, a Time to lay up for Eternity, but now my Time is gone for ever. The sh••ek of a poor man going out of the world sometimes has been, A would of Weal•h for an inch of Time. 〈…〉, tis Wisdom to prevent such things as these.
