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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.
The second opportunity of getting good, is in time of youth and health, whilst the vigour and strength of the body and mind is fit for labour, and capable of instruction. And Solomon in his book of Penance, viz. Ecclesiastes, bids, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come. These days of youth and health are good days, when he which will use them, hath his memory steadfast to call to mind his evil ways that he may bewail them, and to treasure up good instructions and promises that may guide and comfort him, when the limbs will join with the mind, and the mind hath the body as a fi• instrument to seek the Kingdom of Heaven, if a man will address himself ⟨p. 62⟩unto it: but the days of old age and sickness fail much of the commodious fitness for good; the memory is cracked, the head and understanding is weak, and especially the time of sickness is so filled with pain, so shaken with distractions, and encumbered with griefs and sorrows, that one is nothing fit to repent, or pray, or hear, or to do any such thing.
The second opportunity of getting good, is in time of youth and health, whilst the vigour and strength of the body and mind is fit for labour, and capable of instruction. And Solom•n in his book of Penance, viz. Ecclesiastes, bids, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come. These days of youth and health are good days, when he which will use them, hath his memory stedfast to call to mind his evil ways that he may bewail them, and to treasure up good instructions and promis•s that may guide and comfort him, when the limbs will joyn with the mind, and the mind hath the body as a fi• instrument to seek the Kingdom of Heaven, if a man will address himself ⟨p. 62⟩unto it: but the days of old age and sickness fail much of the commodious fitness for good; the memory is cracked, the head and understanding is weak, and especially the time of sickness is so filled with pain, so shaken with distractions, and incumbred with griefs and sorrows, that one is nothing fit to repent, or pray, or hear, or to do any such thing.