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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.
Secondly, For time of hearing the Word, he that would not be troubled▪ with such sluggishness then, must look that he do use meat, and drink, and sleep moderately, in the ⟨p. 41⟩first season of it; and then strive to quicken himself against carnal heaviness and sorrow, by prayer and meditation before-hand: which two things will keep a healthful body in such good temper, that s•ee, shall not ordinarily oppress it in this most sacred exercise.
Secondly, For time of hearing the Word, he that would not be troubled▪ with such sluggishness then, must look that he do use meat, and drink, and sleep moderately, in the ⟨p. 41⟩first season of it; and then strive to quicken himself against carnal heaviness and sorrow, by prayer and meditation before-hand: which two things will keep a heathful body in such good temper, that s•ee, shall not ordinarily oppress it in this most sacred exercise.
Now follows the fourth Thief to be arraigned, and that is, Idle thoughts. Mans imaginations will be working, and tossing conceits up and down almost continually. Now all men by nature are so tainted with the sickness of vanity, that their minds will run willingly after nothing else, but that which vanity begets. And for this cause men have taken up a Proverb, to dazzle their eyes, (if it might be) that this might not seem a ••u••. They say, tha• Thought is free; a• though one should never answer for idle thoughts. And it is the common excuse of men to say, They think no harm; as though it ⟨p. 42⟩