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The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that…
The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that have mis-spent their time showing how they should redeem it comfortably / by William Whately ... ; now published for general good by Richard Baxter.The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that have mis-spent their time shewing how they should redeem it comfortably / by William Whately ... ; now published for general good by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1673
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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.
and he that will take time to card or dice, and to use lawful recreations immoderately (I mean so, as to be at his play the greater part of the day, and it may be some, if not the most of the night too) shall pay full dearly ⟨p. 86⟩for it: either he must repent, and undo this with much grief and sorrow of heart, or else he must smart for it hereafter worse in Hell. I would not deal over sharply with thee: but take Gods loving admonition, and let him have one tenth part of the four and twenty hours: yea, more a good deal than so, now that thou hast more leisure than ordinary. And here is yet a kind of people that are to be rigorously handled, such as are all gamesters, that spend no one hour waking, but upon pleasure: the world calls them scatter-goods, and the Lord will call them scatter-hours, that do misspend both goods and hours. Such (let them think of themselves how the• will) as do make gaming the greatest part (if not all) of their occupation, must be content to hear that they have no portion in Heaven, as they can keep no portion in earth. How can one have treasure in Heaven, that never ⟨p. 87⟩laid up any there? If God hate a gamester▪ so that he will not give him good clothes to his back, (now he had •reamed tha• he shall be clothed with ••g•) he will much less afford him a seat in Heaven. And howsoever for a time they ruffle it out, and be clad better than their more laborious neighbours, yet this trade will surely undo them, for they have brought this peril upon themselves, that either God must not be true, or they must not be rich, he must forfeit his truth, or they their goods, besides their name and soul: wherefore let such as have hitherto given their days to such an unsanctified and inordinate course, surcease from the practice of their lewdness; and both in conscience for their souls sake, & in discretion for their goods sake, resolve to become better husbands of time, lest their gaming on earth, bring beggary to their latter days, and damnation to their souls ⟨p. 88⟩