Let us discern our Time, and make none but Good Bargains about the time. The Scripture once and again tells us, as in Eph. 5. 16. that we are to Buy up the time, or buy out the time. This is to discern the Time! We must be at some Cost, and at some Charge for it, if we would not be ill-husbands of our time: We must pay down either Money or Monies-worth for it; we must fore go and under go many things for it. Many things must we give up, that our time so may be well-employed. The case is ordinarily ⟨p. 81⟩so, that either we must resign many Pleasures, many Profits, many Honours, or else we must part with our time. Now rather give up all Delights, than suffer precious time to be pirated away. All the things of time, are sometimes Expense little enough for time. Yea, many things must we give back, that so we may not misemploy our time. The Devil and our Lusts have been trucking for our time. The Devil, that hellish Huckster, would engross all our Time for his own. He deals with us as the Europeans dealt at first with the silly Indians, who le•• go their •old, and Silver, and Diamonds for glass-Beads and tinsel-Toys. The Answer that our Lust makes to the Tempter is, Let me have the pleasures of sin for a season, and every season of my time shall be thine. O but we should be content to give back all that Satan has proffered us for our time; let it be never-so-much that we might have had for the misuse of time, begrudge it not. 'Twas the Speech of Austin, Perde aliquid ut Deo vaces If you would have Time for God, or any Good, you must part with something for it.
Let us discern our Time, and make none but Good B••gains about the time. The Scripture once and again tells us, as in Eph. 5. 16. that we are to Buy up the time, or buy out the time. This is to discern the Time! We must be at some Cost, and at some Charge for it, if we would not be ill-husbands of our time: We must pay down either Mony or Monyes-worth for it; we must fore go and under go many things for it. Many things must we give up, that our time so may be well-imployed. The case is ordinarily ⟨p. 81⟩so, that either we must resign many Pleasures, many Profits, many Honours, or else we must part with our time. Now rather give up all Delights, than suffer precious time to be pyrated away. All the things of time, are sometimes Expence little enough for time. Yea, many things must we give back, that so we may not misemploy our time. The Devil and our Lusts have been trucking for our time. The Devil, that hellish Hucster, would engross all our Time for his own. He deals with us as the Europeans dealt at first with the silly Indians, who le•• go their •old, and Silver, and Diamonds for glass-Beads and tinsil-Toyes. The Answer that our Lust makes to the Tempter is, Let me have the pleasures of sin for a season, and every season of my time shall be thine. O but we should be content to give back all that Satan has proffer'd us for our time; let it be never-so-much that we might have had for the misuse of time, begrutch it not. 'Twas the Speech of Austin, Perde aliquid ut Deo vaces If you would have Time for God, or any Good, you must part with something for it.
