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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.
N• […] can talk idly, but he casts himself […] a double damage, even the loss of a word, and the loss of time; two great losses, what ever m•n imagine of them: And therefore the Apostle Paul also finds fault with a certain sort of women that were prattlers, which would go from house to house, twa•ling and babbling out frothy speech that was good for nothing, which fault he condemns as a ma•ter something worse than idleness, ⟨p. 26⟩or doing nothing, when one talks toys or trifles, and speaks shadows or gauds that yield no profit. Such twattling cuts out the heart of good time, for it hath seldom any measure, it creeps by little and little over a great part of the day, and sometimes of the night. How many winter nights do men suffer themselves to be robbed of, by this childish babbling? And in the fourth verse of this Chapter the Apostle forbids foolish speaking and jesting: The one is a roving discourse, gathering together a great deal of chaffy gear, that will feed no man: a busy, but absurd prosecuting of a headless and footless tale (as we may call it in our phrase.) The other is a setting of ones self, and sharpening of his wit, to coin pretty and witty scoffs and conceits that may move laughter, and for this end only: both these are condemned, as unlawful, and unbeseeming Christians.
N• 〈…〉 can talk idly, but he casts himself 〈…〉 a double damage, even the loss of a word, and the loss of time; two great losses, what ever m•n imagine of th•m: And therefore the Apostle Paul also finds fault with a certain sort of women that were pratlers, which would go from house to house, twa•ling and babling out fro•hy speech that was good for nothing, which fault he condemns as a ma•ter something worse than idleness, ⟨p. 26⟩