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cause_n	body_n	great_a	soul_n	2,575	5	4.9117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10553	The redemption of lost time	Powel, Daniel.	1608 (1608)	STC 20825; ESTC S105744	52,135	280

what houre his Lord and Master will come Luc. 12.40.46 and that he be alwayes prouided in a readines with the accounting Booke of Receipts and Defrayments of Charges and Allowances against the Time he shall come to demaund an account of the Talents Mat. 25.19 which were vppon trust committed vnto his charge and deliuered to be kept that now they should be restored and of the increase and profite of the Vineyard which was rented and farmed vnto him and of his traffique and imployment All which is a manifest argumēt or signe that at all times the Lord expecteth that man beare fruite and be prepared as a faithfull and wise Seruant And he calleth his Time all the time of his life because that after the same as the Angell most solemnly hath sworn it There should be no more Time Apoc. 10.6 The tree which the Euangelist S. Iohn in his Reuelation did see which alwayes cōtinued with fruit and euery moneth yeelded his owne Apoc. 22.2 all which was wholesome and profitable yea the very leaues therof represent the iust man who alwayes beareth fruite at all times and in all the moneths of the yeare and throughout his whole age and all that is in him is good profitable as well thoughts words as deedes CHAP. 5. How worthy of reproofe idle persons are and who they be Seneca de breuitate vitae AMongest all men saith Seneca they onely are deemed idle who imploy and addict themselues to the studie and exercise of wisedome and knowledge albeit indeed they onely doe liue seeing they doe not onely preserue and liue out their own yeares and ages but also adde vnto their dayes the fore-passed times of former ages because they haue the fruition of that which in those dayes was registred for the behoofe of insuing posteritie whereof they reape great commodity and profit Which Idlenesse hauing bin so well imployed is laudable and prayse-worthy but excepting this al other idlenes which properly is idlenes indeed is most worthily to be reprehended For as the Bird was created to flie Iob. 15. so was Mán borne to labour And touching that Idlenes the same Seneca saith that it is the liuing mans sepulchre and that the healthful idle person loyterer that followeth nothing but idlenesse being as it were interred and buried therein is in great danger of falling into many offences against God Wherefore Ecclesiasticus saith Eccle. 33.26 That Idlenesse hath taught much malice and enuie A certaine Schooleman termeth Idlenesse Fr. Francis in sua regula the Enemie of the Soule Aug ad fra tres in Eremo ser 19. And S. Augustine writeth that no friend of idlenesse shall or can be any Citizen in the kingdome of Heauen Chrysost hom 8. in cap. 4. ad Ephes S. Chrysostome affirmeth that Idlenesse is a part of vice or rather no part at all but a most wicked peruerse root yea the very cause and occasion of all vices whereof Idlenesse is the Ringleader and Mistris That great Anthonie with lowde shrikes and sorrowfull lamentation to God almighty cried out in the wildernesse saying O my God and my Lord thou true Samaritane and right keeper and protectour of Soules and of bodies raise in me thy grace afford me such fauour and bestowe vpon thy Seruant so much mercy as that thou permit me not to be idle one iote in this Desert whereunto in like maner as the storie reporteth a voyce from heauen made him this answere Anthony thou hast rightly desired to please God Then pray when thou canst not pray labor and do some handy-work and alwayes imploy thy selfe in some one thing or other performing such thinges which on thy part are to be performed and done and then shalt thou neuer faile or misse the diuine fauour It was the opinion of the Fathers who liued in Egypt Cassian lib. 10. collat c. 3. That one onely Diuell tempted a labouring Monke but many the idle Howbeit because many thinges are written concerning and against that kinde of idlenesse my principall intent and chiefe purpose is not to intreat thereof so much as of spirituall Idlenesse Against which I will proceede freeing many of errour in that point who in their owne conceipt and imagination are much occupied manifesting and prouing with sufficiēt reasons how they are idle and how they with-holde Time captiuated imprisoned For which purpose I say hee is idle who vseth not Time conformable to that end whereto by our Lord it was graunted vnto vs but rather imployeth it in things vnlawfull and vniust which neither tendeth nor can be directed to his seruice nor to the benefit or profit of his Neighbour or about some other businesses which cānot be perfected or brought to passe for any honest or laudable end And so all Officers Labourers Marchants Tradesmen Workmen Hirelings Kings Princes Counsailors Aduocates Ministers Seruants and all maner of persons that are such doe as it were couer heauē with their Mantles and with-holde Time captiuated when they occupy and busie themselues in and about workes actions exercises and seruices which are vnlawfull and prohibited by the Lawes Decrees Constitutions diuine or not to that end and intent they ought or else doe liue so secure and retchlesse that they do no worke that is good or acceptable vnto God And therefore as before wee haue spoken Time was bestowed on man not to doe euill nor to be idle and he that is ill occupied is reckoned and accounted as idle before God In vaine hath he receaued a Soule Psal 15. who alwayes offendeth GOD with the same In vaine hath euery Sinner had all that Time wherein he liued in sinne and in vaine haue all those now the same who continue therein and for all the time their soules haue remained idle within them notwithstanding that they haue profited as touching the world and reaped benefit thereby and enioy the vse of their strengthes powers for other works actions exercises and seruices but as for the principall end whereto GOD graunted the same which was that they should serue him as acknowledged Seneca at length when hee said Seneca That God created all other thinges of the world for the vse of humane body the body for the fiue senses and the Senses for the Soule and the soule to contemplate and loue the diuine Beauty All the Time they spend and wast sinfully or doe not imploy thēselues in thinges about the seruice of God is idle and vaine And yet for all that you will say that the King is busie or a Counsailour or some Officer or Minister c. But I will terme such a one an idle Christian a loyterer or idle workman in the house of God millions of persons do remaine in hell for their idle loytering in that kinde of Idlenesse who in their owne imagination thinke themselues greatly occupied in this world All houres spent and consumed in vnlawfull playes murmuration