No time to be mis-spent. [ 1712]
THere were three speciall faults,* 1.1 whereof Cato professed himself to have se∣riously repented, One was passing by water when he might have gon by land, another was, trusting a secret in a Womans bosome; but the main one was, spending an hour unprofitably: But how many hours not onely on common dayes, but upon the Lords day, that concerns the businesse of our Souls, have and do we still unprofitably lavish? Let us then embrace the counsell which Ierome▪ gave to Rusticus: Be ever doing, Ut quando Diabolus veniat, occupatum inveniat; that when the Devill comes with ••is businesse, he may find us at our businesse; It is the sitting bird that is so easily shot, so long as she is flying in the Ayre, the mur∣thering piece is not leveld at her; and let us be going on in good employment, and then we shall not be so fair a ma••k for the Devill to aym at.