A new form of meditations for every day in the year. Written originally in French by F. John Crasset. And put into English at the request of several persons of honour and quality, by a well-wisher to devotion.
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A new form of meditations for every day in the year. Written originally in French by F. John Crasset. And put into English at the request of several persons of honour and quality, by a well-wisher to devotion.
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Crasset, Jean, 1618-1692.
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London : Printed for William Grantham, in Cock-Pit Alley, near Drury-Lane,
MDCLXXXV [i.e. 1685]
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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"A new form of meditations for every day in the year. Written originally in French by F. John Crasset. And put into English at the request of several persons of honour and quality, by a well-wisher to devotion." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B02468.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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XXXV. MED. Of the good use of Time.
TIme is precious: short: irreparable.Precious: because each moment of it is worth an Eternity.Short: because it lasts only our life.Irreparable: because it never returns.
What will it avail you to have liv'd in pleasures,If you die in sin?What will it avail you to have past your time well,If it go ill with you for all Eternity?Time is given you to think on your Salvation:You have but little of it remaining.Death draws on.Eternity advances.Your life slips away.
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Your health impairs.Your Judgment is preparing.Poor fool! this very night thy soul shall be fetch'd away.And to whom wilt thou leave all that thou hast hoarded up?To whom will he be good, who is naught to himself?After your death, you will wish for one momentOf that time, which you squander away in Pastimes.After death you will repine at the loss of that time,Which you spend unprofitably.
Make therefore good use of your time.Manage those precious moments.Redeem that which you have lost.Employ the present well.Regulate well that which remains.Think on your Salvation.Save your Soul.An Angel hath sworn by him that lives in all Ages,That soon there will be no more time.
O my God!Give me yet a little more time,And I will give you all satisfaction.Alas! I deserve indeed to be deprived of it,Because I have so long abused it.But I will henceforth make better use of it.I will think on nothing but my Salvation.
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I will repair the time I have lost,And employ well the time remaining.
They were taken away before their time.
Job 22.
Do not much wickedness, and be not a fool, that thou maist not die in a time not thine.
Eccles. 7.
Time is short.
1 Cor. 7.
Redeeming time.
Eph. 5.
He swore by him that lives for ever and ever, That Time shall be no more.
Apoc. 10.
Wherefore, whilst we have time, let us do good.
Gal. 6.
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