Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about…

4. When a man doth endeavour to make up his former losses and mispence of time by a diligent improvement of the present season, then he may be said to redeem time; when a man hath lived and spent his time unthriftily, but now he endeavours by double diligence to redeem, and as it were, to buy back again the time that's past and lost; when he is made sensible, that he hath done little for God in former times, and therefore endeavours to live much unto, and do much service for God in Christ now, then he redeems time. As the Children of Israel in the last year of their being in the Wilderness, dispatched more way than in forty years before: So when a man doth more for God now in one year, than he hath done twenty or forty years; we may say that, that man redeemeth time.

4. When a man doth endeavour to make up his former losses and mispence of time by a diligent improvement of the present season, then he may be said to redeem time; when a man hath lived and spent his time unthristily, but now he endeavours by double diligence to redeem, and as it were, to buy back again the time that's past and lost; when he is made sensible, that he hath done little for God in former times, and therefore endeavours to live much unto, and do much service for God in Christ now, then he redeems time. As the Children of Israel in the last year of their being in the Wilderness, dispatched more way than in forty years before: So when a man doth more for God now in one year, than he hath done twenty or forty years; we may say that, that man redeemeth time.

Come we to the Use of the Point:

USE 1. Here is matter of sad Reproof unto those that do misspend precious time. You shall have some that say, They do such a thing to pass away time, and such a thing is very good to pass away time. O ⟨p. 89⟩