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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.
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.
These words which I have read, lead us into that path: being part of an exhortation begun in the former ⟨p. 3⟩