The Contents OF The Discourse about the Right Way of Improving our Time.
- THE Introduction. 155
- The Text explained. 156
The true interest of families, or, Directions how parents may be happy in their children, and children in their parents to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by a divine of the Church of England ; with a preface by A. Horneck.
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- The true interest of families, or, Directions how parents may be happy in their children, and children in their parents to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by a divine of the Church of England ; with a preface by A. Horneck.
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- Kirkwood, James, 1650?-1708.
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- London :: Printed for J. Taylor, and J. Everingham,
- 1692.
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- Family -- Great Britain.
- Family -- Religious life.
- Parent and child -- Early works to 1800.
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How Time is to be redeemed.
- 1. Time is to be redeemed from sleep. 158
- 2. It is to be redeemed from dressing and adorning the Body. 162
- 3. It is to be redeemed from eating and drinking. 165
- 4. It is to be redeemed from gaming. 168
- 5. It is to be redeemed from visuing. 172
- 6. Time is to be redeemed from world∣ly business. 179
- 7. It is to be redeemed from idle∣ness. 183
- 8. It is to be redeemed in sacred and religious Performances, by doing them in the best manner. 186
Some Motives to Excite you to do these things.
- 1. Motive, from the shortness of your Time. 197
- 2 Motive, from the uncertainty of your Time. 201
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- 3. Motive, from the greatness and dif∣ficulty of the work you have to do. 209
- 4. Motive, from the account you must give how you spend your Time. 216
- The Conclusion. 223