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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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If any thing grieve him, he may freely disburden his heart into God's bosom; if he faulted any way, he may have full and free scope to confess and bewail it; if he want any good thing, there is leisure and place in as effectual manner, and with as many words as one can, to beg it of the Lord. Thus great riches might come to the soul by a well spent solitariness: but vain cogitations do deprive a man of all this, and do so blow up the mind with that which is nothing, as it grows swollen, like the flesh of him which hath the dropsy, so that it may well be called the dropsy of the mind. Now for a help against this vanity of the mind, breaking forth in idle thoughts and fancies; first, we must take the counsel of Solomon, to keep the heart with all diligence. The heart is that which must be narrowly looked unto, that evil and unprofitable thoughts rise not up in it. ⟨p. 45⟩Here must be the special care to prevent, first breeding and engendering of sin in the most inward parts.
If any thing grieve him, he may freely disburden his heart into God's bosome; if he faulted any way, he may have full and free scope to confess and bewail it; if he want any good thing, there is l•isure and place in as effectual manner, and with as many words as one can, to beg it of the Lord. Thus great riches might come to the soul by a well spent solitariness: but vain cogitations do deprive a man of all this, and do so blow up the mind with that which is nothing, as it grows swollen, like the flesh of him which hath the dropsie, so that it may well be called the dropsie of the mind. Now for a help against this vanity of the mind, breaking forth in idle thoughts and phancies; first, we must take the counsel of Solomon, to keep the heart with all diligence. The heart is that which must be narrowly looked unto, that evil and unprofitable thoughts rise not up in it. ⟨p. 45⟩Here must be the special care to prevent, first breeding and ingendring of sin in the most inward parts.