The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that…

before the bones clattered, and the mourners looked for the funeral, an interpreter was despised, but now his words are observed. Thus a man may do much good to his neighbours or servants soul, if he wait for a time when he ⟨p. 69⟩is fit to receive admonition, and then gives him it; as the husbandman in dry weather waits for a shower of rain, and then sets in his plough. Again, for the body, sometimes one shall meet with one that hath true need, that is in distress for his bodily estate, and doth indeed want relief; this is an occasion and fit time to show liberality, now a man must open his purse, and be ready to give freely; I mean not, that every time a man meets a beggar, he should be giving, (for to those a man should not give, but in the very extremity of necessity) but if our brother hath been afflicted by any loss through fire, or such like, (that he do not make himself needy by idleness, but it comes upon him by some hand of God) here is an object fit for mercy, and here one may be seasonably liberal; here is an Altar, offer the sacrifice of alms upon it, which is a thing wherewith God is well ⟨p. 70⟩pleased. Some other time sparing may be more fit, but now is a season to be more free of gift, and openhanded.

before the bones clattered, and the mourners looked for the funeral, an interpreter was despised, but now his words are observed. Thus a man may do much good to his neighbours or servants soul, if he wait for a time when he ⟨p. 69⟩is fit to receive admonition, and then gives him it; as the husbandman in dry weather waits for a shower of rain, and then sets in his plow. Again, for the body, sometimes one shall meet with one that hath true need, that is in distress for his bodily estate, and doth indeed want relief; this is an occasion and fit time to shew liberality, now a man must open his purse, and be ready to give freely; I mean not, that every time a man meets a beggar, he should be giving, (for to those a man should not give, but in the very extremity of necessity) but if our brother hath been afflicted by any loss through fire, or such like, (that he do not make himself needy by idleness, but it comes upon him by some hand of God) here is an object fit for mercy, and here one may be seasonably liberal; here is an Altar, offer the sacrifice of alms upon it, which is a thing wherewith God is well