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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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But if he despise this admonition of God, his soul shall be more seared than before, his heart shall be delivered to a greater hardness and senselessness than ever before, and so be further off from repentance and life.
But if he despise this admonition of God, his soul shall be more seared than before, his heart shall be delivered to a greater hardness and senselesness than ever before, and so be further off from repentance and life.
But alas, the frantic dealing of men in this case is too palpable, and to be wondered at, when Gods word strikes upon them, when they feel the keenness of it, when the threatenings have cut, so that they smart for it; then they run to dicing, carding, drinking, dancing, &c. as it were of set purpose to drive away the Spirit of God, that was coming towards them to heal their Soul. None is so mad to take such courses ⟨p. 75⟩for his body, that when he feels the sore to smart, then to run from the Physician, and cover it over with a clout, or strive to forget it: yet for their Souls a number deal so senselessly in this thing as much as in any other, verifying that name which the Holy Ghost hath given unto them, when he terms them mad […] it is a property […] mad man, that fe•ling […] hate the Physician […] him that would […] of us which have […] so mad, would return now to their minds, and to God to be healed! Again, sometimes a mans hear• is stirred up with an inward and secret rejoicing or gladness. Then saith Saint James, If any man be merry, let him sing Psalms, Jam. 5.13. now he shall do it with a cheerful courage indeed; and therefore David would in such a case rise at midnight to sing a ⟨p. 76⟩Psalm, rather than he would lose the season, when it would relish with him so well.