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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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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.
It is a most irrational and ungrateful errour, 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 bod•ly ⟨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.
And what I have said especially to the Rich, (who think their loss of Time no sin,) I must say also to all others, O value Time before it's gone! Use it before it's taken from you! Dispatch the work that you were made for: Repent and turn to God unfeignedly: Prepare for death without delay: Time will not stay; nor will it ever be recovered: Were it not lest I should write a Treatise instead of a Preface, I would especially press this on all these following sorts of people. 1. Those that are young, who have yet the flower of their Time to use, that they cast it not away on childish vanity or lust. 2. Those that have lost much Time already, that they show the sincerity of their Repentance, by Redeeming the rest, and lose no more.