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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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Quest. 7. Do you mark what dying men say of Time, and how they value it? (unless they be blocks that are past feeling.) How ordinarily do good and bad then wish, that they had spent Time better, and cry out, O that it were to spend again? Then they are promising, O if it were to do again, we would spend that time in heavenly lives, and fruitful obedience, which we spent in curiosity, ⟨image 16⟩idleness and superfluous sensual delights Then they cry, O that God would renew our Time, and once more try us how we will spend it. Alas sirs, why should wise men so much differ in health and sickness! Why should that time be vi•ified now, which will seem so precious then?
Quest. 7. Do you mark what dying men say of Time, and how they value it? (unless they be blocks that are past feeling.) How ordinarily do good and bad then wish, that they had spent Time better, and cry out, O that it were to spend again? Then they are promising, O if it were to do again, we would spend that time in heavenly lives, and fruitful obedience, which we spent in curiosity, ⟨image 16⟩idleness and superfluous sensual delights Then they cry, O that God would •enew our Time, and once more try us how we will spend it. Alas sirs, why should w•se men so much differ in health and sickness! Why should that time be vi•ified now, which will seem so precious then?
Quest. 8. How think you the miserable souls in Hell would value Time, if they were again sent hither, and tried with it again on the terms as we are? Would they feast it away, and play it away as you do now; and then say, Are not plays and cards and feasting lawful? Every fool will be wise too late, Matth. 25.3• 8, 11. Bethink you what their experience teacheth them, and let warning make you wise more seasonably, and at a cheaper rate.