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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.
THE REDEMPTION OF TIME.
Ephes. 5.16. Redeem the Time, because the days are evil.
Ephes. 5.16. Redeem the Time, because the dayes are evil.
Whilst I bethought my self of a portion of holy Writ to treat upon, that might hold some agreement with the present season; this short sentence offered it self unto my ⟨p. 2⟩mind. At the first I rejected it as impertinent, but after a second and more serious view, methought it was the most fit Scripture that I could make choice of, on this occasion: for howbeit it hath pleased the common sort of men, to stile these festival days with the name of good times; yet by reason of the gross abusage, to which the corruption of men hath made them subject, they may very well receive an alteration of their title, and in a quite contrary phrase, be termed evil days; yea, and that in the highest degree of all, the worst of days. Now in this time wherein time is so lavishly misspent, I hope it cannot seem unconvenient, or untimely, to give a brief exhortation concerning the right use of Time.
WHilest I bethought my self of a portion of holy Writ to treat upon, that might hold some agreement with the present season; this short sentence offered it self unto my ⟨p. 2⟩mind. At the first I rejected it as impertinent, but after a second and more serious view, methought it was the most fit Scripture that I could make choice of, on this occasion: for howbeit it hath pleased the common sort of men, to stile these festival dayes with the name of good times; yet by reason of the gross abusage, to which the corruption of men hath made them subject, they may very well receive an alteration of their title, and in a quite contrary phrase, be termed evil dayes; yea, and that in the highest degree of all, the worst of dayes. Now in this time wherein time is so lavishly misspent, I hope it cannot seem unconvenient, or untimely, to give a brief exhortation concerning the right use of Time.