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A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our…
A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our souls. Being the substance of several sermons from Psal. 119. v. 60. / By Thomas Doolittle, Minister of the Gospel ...
printed by Bartholemew Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
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.
II. Make haste Sirs, make haste, delay no longer; for all the time that is before you is little enough for you to do what ⟨p. 16⟩God Commands you. He that begins his obedience to God's Commands soonest, […] at least in his youth, will have time […] enough to do what God Commands: […] that are in years, if you had begun […] work as soon as you began to understand things, you would have found work enough to have done, if so be you […] a thousand years to live in this World, but being you have but a little time to live, must not this little time be little enough for you to do the work that God set you in the world to do? Have you one Day to spare, or one Hour to spare? O how many of this world do spend their time so as if they had time too much and work too little! When, God knows, your time is of the least.
II. Make haste Sirs, make haste, delay no longer; for all the time that is before you is little enough for you to do what ⟨p. 16⟩God Commands you. He that begins his obedience to God's Commands soonest, 〈…〉 at least in his youth, will have time 〈…〉 enough to do what God Commands: 〈…〉 that are in years, if you had begun 〈…〉 work as soon as you began to understand things, you would have found work enough to have done, if so be you 〈…〉 a thousand years to live in this World, but being you have but a little time to live, must not this little time be little enough for you to do the work that God set you in the world to do? Have you one Day to spare, or one Hour to spare? O how many of this world do spend their time so as if they had time too much and work too little! When, God knows, your time is of the least.
There are these Live things more under this second Head, which will include you to make haste. To delay not one hour longer. O could! but prevail, but with one sinner resolvedly to go home, and to say, I will delay no longer: I will make haste to keep the Commandments of my God! Consider there one,