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These things are we to discern in all Time. For the sake hereof, let us now permit no Time to be misplaced in such things as these.

These things are we to discern in all Time. For the sake hereof, let us now permit no Time to be misplac'd in such things as these.

First, Let us misspend no Time in vanity, of them that live in vain pleasures 'tis said in 1 Tim 5. 6. they are Dead while they live. They discern ⟨p. 76⟩no Time, and enjoy none. Too much Time is not to be laid out in Eating and Drinking. To affect Long Meals, or to tarry long at the Wine, does not become a Christian. Thy Soul is a little too noble a thing sure to be made the Cook of thy Body. Moreover, Too much Time is not to be laid out in Attiring and Adorning. It made an holy man among the Ancients to weep, when in a morning he •aw a person longer in Dressing, than himself had been in praying. Thy Carcass that is to feed the Worms ere long should not put by thy cares about thy Spirit, which must be in Weal or Woe for ever. Once more, Too much Time is not to be laid out in Sporting and Gaming. There are some lawful Recreations, of which we should be shy, lest they steal away our Heart and our Time. That blessed Martyr, John Hus, just before he dyed, in a Letter thus bewailed himself, O beg of God to pardon me for the Time I have lost at such a Play, that yet in it self was very innocent. But there are some unlawful Recreations also, in which multitudes play away their Time. The plays which depend upon a pure Lot are such. The moral Heathen Zealously reproached them. And severe Statutes were made against them when the Roman Empire became a Christian. Men always loose at them, those things which are better than any that they win, their Time, if not their Soul.

First, Let us mispend no Time in vanity, of them that live in vain pleasures 'tis said in 1 Tim 5. 6. they are Dead while they live. They discrn ⟨p. 76⟩