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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34877	A supplement to Knowledge and practice wherein the main things necessary to be known and believed in order to salvation are more fully explained, and several new directions given for the promoting of real holiness both of heart and life : to which is added a serious disswasive from some of the reigning and customary sins of the times, viz. swearing, lying, pride, gluttony, drunkenness, uncleanness, discontent, covetousness and earthly-mindedness, anger and malice, idleness / by Samuel Cradock ... useful for the instruction of private families.	Cradock, Samuel, 1621?-1706.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6756; ESTC R15332	329,893	408

6. I shall shew who are the persons that should especially be perswaded to the practice of this duty For the First What is meant by redeeming time Time may be considered either as past present or to come 1. For Time past there is no recalling of that the loss of it ought to be bewailed by us and that with great bitterness * Damna fleo rerum sed plus fleo damna dierum 2. For Time to come that we are uncertain of Only two times we are assured will come the time of Death and the time of Judgement And he is no wise man that does not provide and prepare himself against both these 3. The Time present This only is our time and this we should labour well to imploy improve and husband to the best advantage And so much of the first particular what is meant by redeeming Time 2. To what purposes are we to redeem time There are many excellent purposes for which we should do it Particularly 1. To consider our wayes and find out the sins of our lives that we may humble our Souls before the Lord for them and may undoe them again by true Repentance 2. To sue out our Pardon and make our Peace with God by betaking our selves to Christ Jesus and giving up our selves to him to be Pardoned through the infinite merit of his active and passive obedience and to be sanctified by his Spirit 3. To consider what unruly affections are in us that we may set our selves through the aids of grace to subdue and mortify them 4. To consider how we may frame our outward conversation so as may tend to the honour of God and credit of our Profession 5. To consider what is the part that God hath appointed us to act in this world and what are the peculiar duties incumbent on us in reference to our particular calling and station that we may perform them wisely faithfully and diligently 6. To consider that this life is our seed-time and that we shall reap hereafter according to what we sow here And therefore we had need look to it that we sow good seed and do what good we can while we have opportunity He that sowes to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption and he that sowes to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6.7 7. To consider that we are not only to take care to clear our own Souls of guilt but to humble our selves for the crying sins of our Nation by which our Heavenly Father is highly dishonoured that so we may do our part to stand in the gap and divert the wrath of God And so much of the purposes for which we are to redeem Time 3. I come now in the third place to consider from what we must redeem time There are many things from which we must redeem it 1. From the ordinary business and affairs of this life For though we are to be diligent in our particular callings yet we must not suffer our worldly business to ingross all our time We must labour so to contrive the business of our callings that they may not intrench upon that time which we are to imploy for the good of our Souls 2. From the lawful refreshments of our lives such as eating drinking sleeping recreations c. In which there is very often too much of our time spent 3. From Conversation and company especially such company among whom we cannot expect either to do good or to receive good 4. We must be especially careful how we employ our solitary hours and when we are alone that we do not spend that time n melancholy and impertinent musings and rovings and wandrings of thoughts but imploy it in meditation on things profitable and useful And if we had the care and skill to keep our minds to good works when we are alone It would be of incredible advantage to us both for the improving of our reason and much more to improve us in real piety and Christianity And so much of the third Particular From what we must redeem time 4. What are the reasons that should press this duty upon us 1. Our time is but short we have but a little of it We have not seven or eight hundred years of life as the Patriarchs had before the flood Mans life is now ordinarily very short Few live to threescore years and ten and very few to four-score And take out of the longest life that any live here 1. The folly and inconsiderateness of Child-hood and youth 2. The time spent in eating drinking and sleeping though with moderation 3. The time of sickness and indisposition of health 4. The time spent in journeys and travel 5. The time spent in recreation and visiting of friends 6. The time of weakness valitudinariness unusefulness in old age I say take out all these and the residue that remaineth for our business of greatest moment and consideration we shall find will be but a small pittance or portion And therefore having so little time we had not need waste it prodigally 2. Our time flyes away very swifly Job 9.25 26. compares it to three very swift things to a Post to a Ship on the Sea and to an Eagle flying to her prey Let any one consider how soon a year is gone and then tell me whether time does not fly away apace 3. A great deal of our time we have already mispent Let us reflect on our infancy Childhood and youth Alas How many years have passed over our heads ere we came to have any consideration for what end we came into the world or what work we had here to do Nay how many in their youth have weaved those cursed wehs of sin which must be afterwards unweaved and undone again with great sorrow and shame Nay how much of the time which we have spent in Gods own worship may be reckoned to our lost time God commands us to use the World as if we used it not But we are apt to pray as if we prayed not and to hear as if we heard not and to worship God in such a cold and formal manner as if we minded not what we were about 4. Consider what a damned soul in hell would give for a little time to recover himself out of that woful misery if it were in his power to purchase it O how cutting must it needs be to him to think how he might have procured everlasting joy and bliss to himself but he foolishly neglected his time and season for the doing of it which is not now to be recovered If God by an extraordinary dispensation should grant to a damned Soul one moneth or week to come out of hell upon tryal surely such a person would better improve his time than before he had done When people come to die at how dear a rate would they be willing to purchase some of those hours which they foolishly mis-spent and squandered away before 5. Consider time is a Talent