The Godly Man's Picture

5 Make Conscience of spending your time,¹ Eph. 5. 16. redeeming the time: Many persons fool away their^* time; some in idle visits, others in recreations and pleasures, which secretly bewitch the heart, and take it off from better things: What are our golden hours for but to mind our souls? Time mis-improved, is not time lived, but time lost. Time is a precious commodity; a piece of wax in it self, is not much worth, but as it is affixed to the label of a Will, and conveys an estate, so it is of great value: Thus time, simply in it self, is not so considerable, but as salvation is to be wrought out in it, and a conveyance of heaven depends upon the well improvement of it, so it is of infinite concernment.

5 Make Conscience of spending your time,¹ Eph. 5. 16. redeeming the time: Many persons fool away their^* time; some in idle visits, others in recreations and pleasures, which secretly bewitch the heart, and take it off from better things: What are our golden hours for but to mind our souls? Time mis-improved, is not time lived, but time lost. Time is a precious commodity; a peece of wax in it self, is not much worth, but as it is affixed to the label of a Will, and conveyes an estate, so it is of great value: Thus time, simply in it self, is not so considerable, but as salvation is to be wrought out in it, and a conveyance of heaven depends upon the well improvement of it, so it is of infinite concernment.

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2. *Aut aliud agendo aut male agendo• Sen.