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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.
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.
Quest. 8. How think you the miserable souls in Hell would value Time, if they were again sent hither, and tryed 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 playes 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.
Quest. 9. Do you believe that you must give an account of your Time? and that you must look back from Eternity on the Time which you now spend? If you do, what account will then be most comfortably to you? Had you not rather then find upon your accounts that all your hours have been spent to the best advantage of your souls, than that abundance of them have been cast away on fruitless toys? Will you have more comfort then in the hours which you spent in Heart-searching, and H•art-reforming and learning and practising the word of God, ⟨image 16⟩or in those which you spent upon needless sports, curiosity or idleness? Do now as you would desire you had done.
Quest. 9. Do you believe that you must give an account of your Time? and that you must look back from Eternity on the Time whch you now spend? If you do, what account will then be most comfortaby to you? Had you not rather then find upon your accounts that all your hours have been spent to the best advantage of your souls, than that abundance of them have been cast away on fruitless toyes? Will you have more comfort then in the hours which you spent in Heart-searching, and Hart-reforming and learning and practising the word of God,