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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64253	A treatise of contentment leading a Christian with much patience through all afflicted conditions by sundry rules of heavenly wisedome : whereunto is annexed first, A treatise of the improvement of time, secondly, The holy warre, in a visitation sermon / by T.T.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Treatise of the improvement of time.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Holy warre.	1641 (1641)	Wing T571; ESTC R26964	82,319	242

day a man would give ten thousand worlds if he had them Fifthly why do we complain of the shortnesse of our lives and not of the losse of time seeing there is none but hath more time then he useth well Sixtly why do we put any time into the account of our lives but that which we carefully passe and well spend seeing the heathen could say He was long he did not live long and one Barlaam being asked of Iosaphat how old he was answered Five and forty yeeres old to whom Iosaphat replyed thou seemest to be seventy true quoth he if you reckon ever since I was borne but I count not those which were spent in vanity If wee should thus reckon the lives of some old men we might esteeme men of seventy yeeres scarce ten dayes old Lastly consider how God in justice sometime cuts off those who make no reckoning nor set price on their time as they ought Iob 15. 32. the wicked shall die before he hath accomplished his dayes and his hand shall be cut off as the Uine in the bud that is young and tender All which together with the preciousnesse of time should make us carefull and to doe for time as we doe for things of price even beware of theeves who would steale it away as namely First worldly cares and covetousnesse whereby the minde is surcharged and sunke in the gulfe of earthlinesse and whereby men live as if time were made for nothing but the getting of wealth and laying up treasure in Chests and no time to lay up treasure in heaven as our Saviour commandeth Oh what a pilfering theefe is worldlinesse which engrosseth all the time The Oxen the Farme the Wife the like vanities take up the whole man while the supper of the great King is despised The thorny ground choakes all seed Secondly Pleasures and Pastimes which waste and drive away time even that precious time which can never be won againe A wofull thing that men should devise and doat on Pastimes seeing the Scripture speaks of no pastime but onely of passing our time in feare and onely time well past is good pastime A wofull thing that professed Christians should dare to spend halfe dayes whole daies many dayes together yea the dayes of Gods solemne worship in vain sports and pleasures which rob them of their heart wit time and grace that they can scarce willingly afford themselves an houre in a wèeke to do their soules good in A fearefull snare of Satan there is in it and a sorcery in gaining that holds a man a willing prisoner to his lusts so many houres together that he would thinke himselfe in wofull bondage to be held the hundreth part of the time in any good duty Thirdly Eating drinking and feasting This eates up much of our time and makes leane and starven soules For while men drinke in delights how is wisdome banished out of the soule how is the time insensibly stollen away besides that these cast a man into excessive sleeping by day as well as by night wherin he passeth his time as in a shadow of death These and many other pilferers of time must a good husband of time watch against as idlenesse roving thoughts bad companionship distractions and unprofitable employments al● which set themselves to steale away our time and hearts CHAP. V. Admonition to foure sorts of people THe doctrine of times usefulnesse and preciousnesse may in particular instances be specially applyed First unto youth Young men and maydens who thinke it a fine life to looke upon their rising sunne must consider what price they set on their dayes Why doest thou that art young account thy life more precious then an old mans is it because thou art in thy strength and vigour which in him is past If these were the price the life of a brute beast should be more precious then of any man for the beast hath more sensible and violent pleasures then he and is lesse restrained in them But the price in truth stands in this that now thou hast good wit fresh senses and all the powers of nature quick to be the servants of grace and means to enrich thee in godlinesse wherein thou art before the aged if thou knowest thy season Now examine thy selfe Have I after Saint Iohns precept or doe I use 〈◊〉 ●●rength to overcome the world a●● mine owne lusts which fight against my soule Whether hath grace seasoned my young yeares that if I should be taken away young I should be fit for God Whether have I sowed to the flesh or to the spirit If to the flesh I must looke to reape destruction for as a man soweth so must he reape And why doth God continue my youth and give me all the powers and quicknesse of nature and strength and beauty What to fight for sinne was this the Covenant I entred into in Baptisme and when I have done will it be a good answer to say I did but as other youth did How stands the case with me doe not I see my mortality in many of mine owne degree young men and maides cut off in their vigour and beauty see I not youth to be as uncertaine as age yea the flower of youth to be but as the flower of the field How had the case stood with me if God had summoned me and cut me off when he cut off such and such of my yeares and acquaintance Oh therfore I will now remember my Creator in the dayes of my youth and grow to this point of wisedome while I have meanes to be the better for them Say not I am young and God lookes not for much at my hands for God accepts no mans person because old or young but according to the knowledge faith vertue subjection and grace he accepts both young and old which how little it is considered in our youth is too plain and wofull Secondly to those of more yeeres whom young ones looke on for examples as such as should be more expert in the word of life and should have more experience as they have had more warning then the other It behooves them to consider how they have prized and husbanded their time Let me aske an ancient man or woman Why hath God given thee more yeares then those that are younger is it not that thou shouldest exceed them as farre in piety and grace as thou doest in yeares and also in means and to be an ensample to them in making a good account of both Paul puts the Colossians in minde what they were in times past and Peter to bring the Iewes to shame for that they had formerly done tells them that it was sufficient they had spent the time past in the lusts of the Gentiles walking in wantonnesse lusts drunkennesse gluttony revellings and abominable idolatries So every man of yeares should recount his time past What have I lived thus long ●ainly sinfully and earthly Have I all