Redemption of time, the duty and wisdom of Christians in evil days, or, A practical discourse shewing what special opportunities ought to be redeem'd ... by J.W.
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Redemption of time, the duty and wisdom of Christians in evil days, or, A practical discourse shewing what special opportunities ought to be redeem'd ... by J.W.
Author
Wade, John, b. 1643.
Publication
London :: Printed for Nathanael Ranew ...,
1683.
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Subject terms
Christian life.
Theology, Practical.
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The first Ʋse, by way of Caution.
Ought we to redeem the Time? Then let not the Men of this Worldthink strange, that serious and conscientious Christians do not run with them into the same Excess of Riot, and lose their Time as despe∣rately as they do. There's good Reason why the so∣ber, considerate Christian does not slightly and carelesly sling away his Time with others; For (as [a]Seneca speaks of an excellent and eminent good Man) he does not meet with any Thing worthy to be accepted in exchange for his Time; and therefore he keeps and reserves it to be employed to use∣ful and prositable Purposes, and is very saving and sparing of it.
The Children and Servants of God do suffici∣ently know the Worth of Time, and plainly under∣stand the gteat Consequences and weighty Con∣cernments of well or ill husbanding of it. If they were wanting by an early, fore-handed Care to se∣cure
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and improve any part of the Time that is past; Their former prodigal lavishing out their Time is the present Burthen of their Spirits, and Sadness of their Souls: And they are resolv'd, by a timely Diligence, in a spiritual Manner to redeem the Time for the future. They often seriously think with themselves, that to lose the Remainder of their Time, is to lose eternal Happiness, and to incur eternal, intolerable Misery: Rather follow and imi∣tate them, than judg and censure them. If you won't forbear reproaching and reviling them, know that the Time is coming, when you shall give an Ac∣count, not only of your Excess of Riot, but even of your hard Speeches top. If any in the Family, if any in the Neighbourhood be more strict, exact and careful to redeem the Time than your sevles, take heed you do not speak ill of them for it: Do not wonder that they do not do as you do: But as you love your Souls, and as you would give an Ac∣count of your Time with Joy and not with Grief; labour, with the holiest and precisest in the Pla∣ces where you live, to walk circumspectly, not as Fools, but as Wise; redeeming the Time, because the Daies are evil.