Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	corruption_n	flesh_n	reap_v	5,289	5	10.9811	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65610	The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that have mis-spent their time shewing how they should redeem it comfortably / by William Whately ... ; now published for general good by Richard Baxter.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1673 (1673)	Wing W1590; ESTC R38583	45,467	132

and guilt of sin and unready to die and shall certainly be for ever lost if they die before that grace renew them I say again for such as these to be sporting away their Time is a practice which fully justifieth the holy Scriptures when they call such persons Fools and such as have no understanding unless it be to do evil and succesfully destroy themselves Quest. 6. Do you think if you neglect and lose your Time that ever you should come again into this world to spend it better If you idle away this life will God ever give you another here If you do not your work well shall you ever come again to mend it O no sirs there is no hope of this Act this part well for as you do it you must speed for ever There is no coming back to correct your errours I have elsewhere told you that it must be Now or Never And yet have you Time to spare on Vanity Quest. 7. Do you mark what dying men say of Time and how they value it unless they be blocks that are past feeling How ordinarily do good and bad then wish that they had spent Time better and cry out O that it were to spend again Then they are promising O if it were to do again we would spend that time in heavenly lives and fruitful obedience which we spent in curiosity idleness and superfluous sensual delights Then they cry O that God would ●enew our Time and once more try us how we will spend it Alas sirs why should w●se men so much differ in health and sickness Why should that time be vi●ified now which will seem so precious then Quest. 8. How think you the miserable souls in Hell would value Time if they were again sent hither and tryed with it again on the terms as we are Would they feast it away and play it away as you do now and then say Are not playes and cards and feasting lawful Every fool will be wise too late Matth. 25 3● 8 11. Bethink you what their experience teacheth them and let warning make you wise more seasonably and at a cheaper rate Quest. 9. Do you believe that you must give an account of your Time and that you must look back from Eternity on the Time wh●ch you now spend If you do what account will then be most comfortab●y to you Had you not rather then find upon your accounts that all your hours have been spent to the best advantage of your souls than that abundance of them have been cast away on fruitless toyes Will you have more comfort then in the hours which you spent in Heart-searching and H●art-reforming and learning and practising the word of God or in those which you spent upon needless sports curiosity or idleness Do now as you would desire you had done Quest. 10. How do you now wish that you had spent the Time which is already past Had you not rather that it had been spent in fruitful holiness and good works than in idleness and fleshly pleasures If not you have not so much as a shadow of Repentance and therefore can have no just conceit that you are forgiven If yea then why will you do that for the Time to come which you wish for the time past that you had never done And hereby shew that your Repentance is hypocritical and will not prove the pardon of your sin For so far as any man truly Repenteth he is resolved not to do the like if it were to do again under the like temptations Quest. 11. Do you know who attendeth you while you are loitering away your Time I have elsewhere told you that the patience and mercy of God is waiting on you that Christ is offering you his grace and the holy spirit moving you to a wiser and a better course that Sun and Moon and all the Creatures here on earth are offering you their service Besides Ministers and all other helpers of your salvation And must all these wait upon you while you serve the flesh and vilifie your Time and live as for nothing Quest. 12. Do you consider what you lose in the loss of Time That time which you are gaming or idling away you might have spent in entertaining grace in heavenly converse in holy pleasures in making your salvation sure And all this you lose in your lose of Time which all your sports will never compensate Quest. 13. Is the Devil idle while you are idle Night and day he is seeking to devour you And will you like the silly bird sit chirping and singing in your wanton pleasures when the Devils gun is ready to give fire at you If you saw but how busie he is about you and for what you would be busier your selves for your own preservation and less bu●ie in doing nothing than you are Qu●st 14. Do you really take Christ and his Apostles and Saints to be the fittest pattern for the spending of your time If you do not why do you usurp the name of Christians Is he a Christian who would not live like Christians or that taketh not Christ for his Master and Example But if you say Yea I pray you then tell us how much Time Christ or any of his Apostles did spend at cards or dice or stage-playes how much ●n curiosity about dressing and superfluous ornaments about unnecessary pomp and courtship how much in sluggishness idleness and vain discourse or how much in furnishing their bodies their attendants their habitations with matter of splendour and vain glory Did they waste so much of the day in nothings and need-nots as our slothful sensual Gentry do Or did they not rather spend their time in holy living and fervent praying and in doing all the good they could to the souls and bodies of all about them and in the labours of a lawful bodily employment Write after this copy rather than after that which is set by the sensual fools of the world if you make any account of Gods acceptance Do as the Saints did if you will speed as they or else for shame never honour their names and memorials to your own condemnation If you will spend your Time as the flesh and the world teach you rather than as Christ hath taught you you must look for your payment from the flesh and the world And why then in Baptism did you renounce them and vow to follow Christ Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6.7 8. Bethink you what the reason was that the ancient Fathers and Churches so much condemned the going to the spectacles of Theaters and why the Canons made it such a crime for a Minister to play at dice Read Dr. Io. Reignolds his cloud of witnesses of all sorts against stage-playes Reader if thou think this counsel