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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.
To fence our selves against this ravenous and lurking fault, we must bind our selves to these three rules, which all depend upon the rule of Christ, that bids us first seek the Kingdom of God, ⟨p. 50⟩first in time, and first in affection, Matth. 6.33. And again, lay up your treasure in Heaven. v. 20. Hence (I say) three rules may be collected, to which he that would not be spoiled of good occasions to the Soul by worldliness, must more and more frame himself and his life.
To fence our selves against this ravenous and lurking fault, we must binde our selves to these three rules, which all depend upon the rule of Christ, that bids us first seek the Kingdom of God, ⟨p. 50⟩first in time, and first in affection, Matth. 6.33. And again, lay up your treasure in Heaven. v. 20. Hence (I say) three rules may be collected, to which he that would not be spoiled of good occasions to the Soul by worldliness, must more and more frame himself and his life.
That first is, that no man suffer himself to enter upon so many businesses, or any so eagerly, as that his ordinary affairs should hinder himself, or his Family from the performance of ordinary Religious exercises.
The common and daily matters of this world, in any mans Calling whatsoever, should not draw him, or his Family, from common and daily duties of Religion; such are reading, praying, meditating, and religious observing of the Sabbath: for here a man must take care for his household, as well as for himself, that he do not hinder them from taking convenient