The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that…

They leave them to Satan, to wicked company and counsel, and to their fleshly lusts and pride, and when they have done, take care only to get them sufficient maintenance, to feed this sensual fire while they live: They train them up for the service of sin and Satan, that at age they; may have Ignorance and Vi•e sufficient to make them the plagues and misery of their Country, and to engage them in enmity against that Gospel and Ministry which is against their lusts; that rebelling against Christ, they may have at last the reward of Rebels, instead of salvation. In a word, they do more against their poor children's souls, than all their enemies i• the world; if not more than the Devil himself could do, at least▪ they most effectually serve him, for their children's damnation. Thus do they spend their days, and at night conclud• them as carelessly as they begun them: And at death (without a true conversion) shall end them as miserably as they spent them ⟨image 9⟩sinfully: And while they are pampering their flesh, and saying, I have enough, I will eat, drink and be merry, they suddenly hear, Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required, and then whose shall all this be which thou possessest, Luke 12.19, 20. And when they have a while been clothed in Purple and Silks, and fared s•mptuosly every day, th•y must hear at last, Remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And when the Time which they now despise is g•ne, O what would they give for one other year or hour of such time, to do the work which they now neglected, Luk. 16.24, 25, 26. Matth. 25.8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

They leave them to Satan, to wicked company and counsel, and to their fleshly lusts and pride, and when they have done, take care only to get them suffiient maintenance, to feed this sensual fire while they live: They train them up for the service of sin and Satan, that at age they; may have Ignoance and Vie sfficient to make them the plagues and misery of their Country, and to engage them in enmity against that Gospel and Ministry which is against their lusts; that rebelling against Christ, they may have at last the reward of Rebels, instead of salvation. In a word, they do more against their poor childrens souls, than all their enemies i the world; if not more than the Devil himself could do, at least they most effctually serve him, for their childrens damnation. Thus do they spend their daies, and at night conclud them as carelesly as they begun them: And at death (without a true conversion) shall end them as miserably as they spent them