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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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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. 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 wh•ch you now spend? If you do, what account will then be most comfortab•y 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 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. 10. How do you now wish that you had spent the Time which is already past? Had you not rather that it had been spent in fruitful holiness and good works, than in idleness and fleshly pleasures? If not, you have not so much as a shadow of Repentance; and therefore can have no just conceit that you are forgiven? If yea, then why will you do that for the Time to come, which you wish for the time past that you had never done? And hereby show that your Repentance is hypocritical, and will not prove the pardon of your sin? For so far as any man truly Repenteth, he is resolved not to do the like, if it were to do again, under the like temptations.