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A practical discourse concerning the redeeming of time by Edward Pelling, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to Their Majesties, and rector of Petworth in Sussex.
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Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.
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bless us and keep us The Lord make his Face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us The Lord lift up his Countenance upon us and give us Peace both now and evermore Amen Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name c. Evening Prayers ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all Men we acknowledge and bewail our manifold Sins and Wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by Thought Word and Deed against thy Divine Majesty provoking most justly thy Wrath and Indignation against us We do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our Misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the Burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us most merciful Father for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please Thee in Newness of Life to the Honour and Glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LIghten our Darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great Mercy defend us from all Perils and Dangers of this Night for the Love of thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen O Everlasting God who hast ordained and constituted the Services of Angels and Men in a wonderful Order mercifully grant that as thy Aoly Angels alway do thee Service in Heaven so by thy Appointment they may succour and defend us on Earth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant O Lord that as we are Baptized into the Death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ So by continual mortifying our corrupt Affections we may be buried with him and that through the Grave and Gate of Death we may pass to our joyful Resurrection for his Merits who Died and was Buried and Rose again for us thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and Everlasting God who art always more ready to hear than we to pray and are want to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the Abundance of thy Mercy forgiving us those things whereof our Conscience is afraid and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask but through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. FINIS BOOKS Printed for and Sold by John Everingham at the Star in Ludgate-street A Further Enquiry into several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probable Resolution of them By John Edwards B. D. sometimes Fellow of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge Octavo A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfections of the Books of the Old and New Testament with a continued Illustration of several difficult Texts of Scripture throughout the whole Work By John Edwards Fellow of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge Octavo Miscellany Essays By Monsieur St. Euremont with a Character by a Person of Honour here in England Continued by Mr. Dryden In Two Volumes Octavo The True Royal English School for their Majesties Three Kingdoms being a Catalogue of all the Words in the Bible Together with a Praxis in Prose and Verses and Variety of Pictures all beginning with one Syllable and proceeding by degrees to Eight divided and not divided whereby all Persons both Young and Old of the meanest Abilities may with little Help be able to read the whole Bible over distinctly easily and more speedily than in any other Method with Directions to find out any Word Together with an Exposition on the Creed By Tobias Ellis late Minister of the Gospel Octavo Letters on several Subjects By the late Pious Dr. Henry Moore With several other Letters To which is added by the Publisher Two Letters One to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock Dean of St. Paul's and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley With other Discourses Published by the Reverend Mr. Elys Octavo An Answer to the Brief History of the Unitarians call'd also Socinians By Will. Basset Rector of St. Swithin London Octavo The Commonwealth's-man Unmask'd Or a Just Rebuke to the Author of the Account of Denmark In Two Parts Twelves A New Family Book Or The True Interest of Families Being Directions to Parents and Children and to those who are instead of Parents shewing them their several Duties and how they may be happy in one another Together with several Prayers for Families and Children and Graces Before and After Meat To which is Annexed A Discourse about the Right Way of Improving our Time By James Kirkwood Rector of Astwick in Bedfordshire with a Preface by Dr. Horneck The Second Edition Monarchia Microeosmi The Origin Vicissitudes and Periods of Vital Government in Man for a further Discovery of Diseases incident to Humane Nature By Everard Maynwaring M. D. Twelves The Gauger and Measurer's Companion being a Compendious Way of Gaging Superficies and Solids with the Reasons of most Multiplications and Divisions used in Measurations and all difficult Points made plain and easie with a Way to Gage all Quantities under a Gallon Also a Brief Description of the Gage-Point for Ale and Wine Gallons with Directions to find the same and the Contents of a Circle in all its Parts the exact Method of measuring Land Board Glass Pavement Stone be it of what Form soever together with a Globe and Round Timber both Decimals and Vulgarly With Useful Tables a Table of Cylinders and a Treatise of Weights and Measures To which is added at the Request of some Gentlemen a True Method of Brewing Strong Ale in London as well and as good as in any Place in the Country With Directions for Clarifying any Ale be it never so thick in few Hours with Thirty Cuts By James Lightbody Philomath Twelves Moral Maxims and Reflections In Four Parts Written in French by the Duke of Rochefoucault and now made English Twelves
when Criminals were wont to inflict on themselves great Penances to macerate their bodies by hard Discipline to give themselves to austere Fastings to wallow on the ground to cover themselves with Sackcloth and Ashes to make Publick acknowledgement of their offences to throw themselves at their fellow Christians Feet and upon their Knees to beg the Prayers of Good people at the Church doors as Tertullian tells us in his book of Repentance Those acts of mortification proceeded from a principle of Humility and a deep sense of sin and of time mis-spent till superstition crept into the Church and turned them into meer Pageantry or the most useful instructions we can gather from them is this that to Redeem ones time to good purpose one right Christian way is to make all possible amends and Reparation for evil actions especially such evil actions as carry along with them Injury and Scandal besides the Guilt which the Conscience contracted from the Sinfulness of their Nature CHAP. VII A third way is to do all the good one can Thirdly ANother way of Redeeming ones time is to do all the good one can To do Good is to be truely Useful to others in his generation according to the Abilities God hath given him and in that calling and Station wherein the Providence of God hath disposed of him We all came into the World to serve God and to help one another nor have we any other business here The Saviour of the world that lost not an hour of his life went about doing good Act. 10. 18. And thereby shewed how unpardonable their Negligence is who Trisle away their time when they have so many objects of Charity before them and those whose Necessities are so great Before I proceed upon this subject we must observe that a mans own necessities are to be regarded first For Love to ones self being the Rule and Standard of that Charity we owe our Neighbours it ought to have the Procedency and to challenge the Principal share of our time and Pains And here we should consider our own wants duly I do not mean our necessities as to the things of the World in which respect mens wants are often as Imaginary as their appetites are Insatiable but I speak of Real necessities those of the Soul which require our Constant and more Particular care because they are of the greatest Concernment and the hardest to be supplyed We must begin with the Understanding for the Notions which lodge there are the spring of action and according as they are found or Rotten so are our lives good or bad and so is our time well or ill imployed Great care therefore must be taken to have a right Judgment in all points the first thing which the soul stands in such need of And to do it substantial good in this respect men should sedulously bestow what fair opportunities they have upon Contemplation Reading and Profitable studies For the soul Naturally is neither a Divine nor Philosopher though indued with Faculties to fit it for the Noblest speculations It must be under Pedagogy and Pupilage nor can the Ripest years Manumit it from a state of Tuition Knowledge doth still increase by the good Improvements we make of our hours and this is the sad reason of some mens Ignorance especially as to matters they should know most of because the time they should bestow upon good books they Dream away in sloth or Sin away in vice or Fool away in sports and many childish Vanities which they abusively call Diversion a word which importeth Business when indeed they will have none to be diverted from But a weak mind is not so bad as a wicked Temper There are many Corruptions in the Lower faculties of the Soul which greatly need an helping hand to cure depravations of nature which are much the worse because they make men like unto the very Beasts that perish for want of morality as well as of understanding Here the way to do ones soul good indeed is to cleanse it from its vices to govern its Passions to mortify its Lusts to rectify its Appetites to wean it from Sensual Pleasures and to destroy that Malice Envy Pride Revengefulness and Implacability of disposition which make a man Resemble not so much a Brute as the very Devil These vices therefore are proper and necessary things to imploy ones time upon because they are the things which bring the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience the things which Pollute the Conscience and cost the Soul its peace in this life and its Felicity in another nay the things which are not only the worst for their effects but the most Difficult also to be cured because they are rooted in the Heart they are a Part of us and it requires no little diligence Industry and skill to be too Hard for Nature especially when it comes to be strengthened by Custome and when evil Inclinations are improved into a pernicious Habit. The truth is if people would Husband their time well they might find a great deal of work for themselves at Home Yet this must not supersede the doing of good abroad too There are Divers necessities which God hath made us all Subject unto that in some respect or other each of us might be serviceable to his neighbours and as various as these Necessities are so various are the opportunities we have of disposing our time to the best advantage and after the most becoming manner Eating and Drinking and other sensualities are the life of Animals whose end is destruction The life of a man especially of a Christian is to do good this sets him above all other Creatures here below and makes him like unto the blessed God himself whose goodness the whole earth is full of and whose compassions fail not To neglect this is to throw aside our great business for the sake of mean employments which will turn to no account but to awaken our Consciences hereafter and to grieve us for our Folly in flinging away that now which our last Death-bed sorrows will shew to have been of the highest Price I Know nature must be provided for and that there are several Recreations which are Innocent in themselves and in their kind necessary to preserve us in health and vigour that we may serve God and spend our serious hours the more acceptably But how many unlawful delights are there which should have no part at all of our time allowed them How many are there which Border upon vice so that little time cannot be afforded them without danger How many that are the occasions of sin though not vicious in their own Nature and how many even of the most harmless ones which are so inordinately pursued that instead of being a Relaxation they become a kind of Trade should an appeal be made to the consciences of Idle and vain persons themselves they could not but confess that much leisure might be well spared for Pious and charitable purposes