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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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Now this pleasantness of the most honest sort is not to b• used as a custom, but in the nature of a refreshing, when men are dulled for better matter. For laughter being a power of Gods creating, and wholesome to the body, and therefore lawful, it cannot be unlawful in a seemly sort, harmlessly to move laughter by words; but it must not be jesting: one must not give himself to it, and make it his occupation for an hour or two together. Now none can be ignorant, how great an hinderance this vain speech is to the well employing of time. For do we not see, that in many places, whole days are cast away in the deep gulf of roving, ⟨p. 28⟩and unprofitable runagate-babbling to no purpose? And that whole meals are devoured in gibing and jesting, if without taking the sacred name of God in vain, and hurting ones brothers name, (which is very seldom, yet excessively, and not without thrusting out better ma••er, which is a grievous faul•. Wherefore that we may be well armed against this robber, let us observe diligently these two rules:
Now this pleasantness of the most honest sort is not to b• used as a custom, but in the nature of a refreshing, when men are dulled for better matter. For laughter being a power of Gods creating, and wholesome to the body, and therefore lawful, it cannot be unlawful in a seemly sort, harmlesly to move laughter by words; but it must not be jesting: one must not give himself to it, and make it his occupation for an hour or two together. Now none can be ignorant, how great an hinderance this vain speech is to the well imploying of time. For do we not see, that in many places, whole dayes are cast away in the deep gulf of roving, ⟨p. 28⟩and unprofitable runnagate-babling to no purpose? And that whole meals are devoured in gibing and jesting, if without taking the sacred name of God in vain, and hurting ones brothers name, (which is very seldom, yet excessively, and not without thrusting out better ma••er, which is a grievous faul•. Wherefore that we may be well armed against this robber, let us observe diligently these two rules: