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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. They that have lost Time, know the worth of it. O, if they might have the happiness to live again that are now in Hell, would they waste their precious hours so wantonly and lavishly as you do? Dying Men that are affrighted in Conscience, discover to us the Passions of the Damned; they would give all the World for one Year, or one Month to repent. He that so passionately begged for a drop to cool his Tongue, how would he have indented with God for a Year's Respite from Torment? In the day of Death, all the Wealth of the World will not purchase one day longer. We never know what we lose in losing Time, till it be too late: It is better to be sensible of the worth of Time in Earth than in Hell. Knowledge of things that are evil and bitter, is more easily gained by Teaching, than by Experience and Feeling: But we do not lay these things to Heart. Christ mourned over Jerusalem, because she lost her day: Luke 19.42. If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy Peace: but now they are hid from thine Eyes.
4. They that have lost Time, know the worth of it. O, if they might have the happiness to live again that are now in Hell, would they waste their precious hours so wantonly and lavishly as you do? Dying Men that are afrighted in Conscience, discover to us the Passions of the Damned; they would give all the World for one Year, or one Month to repent. He that so passionately begged for a drop to cool his Tongue, how would he have indented with God for a Year's Respite from Torment? In the day of Death, all the Wealth of the World will not purchase one day longer. We never know what we lose in losing Time, till it be too late: It is better to be sensible of the worth of Time in Earth than in Hell. Knowledg of things that are evil and bitter, is more easily gained by Teaching, than by Experience and Feeling: But we do not lay these things to Heart. Christ mourned over Ierusalem, because she lost her day: Luke 19.42. If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy Peace: but now they are hid from thine Eyes.