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

Quest. 5. Is the work that you were made for hitherto well done? Are you regenerate and renewed to the Heavenly nature? Are you strong and stablished in grace? Have you made sure of pardon and salvation? Are your hearts in Heaven? and is your daily conversation there? And are you ready with well grounded hope and peace, to welcome death, and appear in judgement? If all this were done, you had yet no excuse for idling away one day or hour, because there is still more work to do, as long as you have time to do it. (and if this were done, you would have that within you, which would not suffer you to cast away your time.) But for these men or women to be passing away Time in •loth or vanity, who are utterly behind hand, and have lost the most of their lives already, and are yet unregenerate, and strangers to a ⟨image 15⟩new and heavenly life, and are unpardoned and in the power and guilt of sin, and unready to die, and shall certainly be for ever lost, if they die before that grace renew them, I say again, for such as these to be sporting away their Time, is a practice which fully justifieth the holy Scriptures, when they call such persons, Fools, and such as have no understanding, unless it be to do evil, and successfully destroy themselves.

Quest. 5. Is the work that you were made for hitherto well done? Are you regenerate and rènewed to the Heavenly nature? Are you strong and stablished in grace? Have you made sure of pardon and salvation? Are your hearts in Heaven? and is your daily coversation there? And are you ready with well grounded hope and peace, to wellcome death, and appear in judgement? If all this were done, you had yet no excuse for idling away one day or hour, because there is still more work to do, as long as you have time to do it. (and if this were done, you would have that within you, which would not suffer you to cast away your time.) But for these men or women to be passing away Time in •loth or vanity, who are utterly behind hand, and have lost the most of their lives already, and are yet unregenerate, and strangers to a ⟨image 15⟩new and heavenly life, and are unpardoned and in the power and guilt of sin, and unready to die, and shall certainly be for ever lost, if they die before that grace renew them, I say again, for such as these to be sporting away their Time, is a practice which fully justifieth the holy Scriptures, when they call such persons, Fools, and such as have no understanding, unless it be to do evil, and succesfully destroy themselves.