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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
O that the Lord would open your eyes, and show you where you must be ere long, and tell you what wo•k you have here to do, that must be done, or you are lost for ever; and then you would easily tell your selves, whether playing and fooling away precious Time be lawful for one in your condition? If your servants leave most of their work undone, and spend the day in cards, and stage-plays, and feasting, an• in merry chat, and then say, Madam, are not cards, and plays, and jesting lawful?] Will you take it for a satisfactory answer? And is it not worse that you deal with God?
O that the Lord would open your eyes, and shew you where you must be ere long, and tell you what wo•k you have here to do, that must be done, or you are lost for ever; and then you would easily tell your selves, whether playing and fooling away precious Time be lawful for one in your condition? If your servan•s leave most of their work undone, and spend the day in cards, and stage-playes, and feasting, an• in merry chat, and then say, Mada•, are not cards, and playes, and jesting lawf•l?] Will you take it for a satisfactory answer? And is it not worse that you deal with God?
It is a most irrational and ungrateful error, to think that you may spend one hours time the more in Idleness, because that you are Rich. The reason were good, if labour were for nothing but to supply your own bodily ⟨image 11⟩necessities: But do you not believe that God is your Lord and Master? and that he giveth you not an hours time in vain, but appointeth you work for every hour? (except your necessary rest;) And that your time and wealth are but his talen•s? And bethink your selves whether a servant may say, I will do less work than my fellow servants, because I have more wages? And whether you may do less for God, because he giveth you more than others? But of this I have said so much in my Preface to my Book called [The Crucifying of the world] that I shall now dismiss it.