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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65750	Redemption of time, the duty and wisdom of Christians in evil days, or, A practical discourse shewing what special opportunities ought to be redeem'd ... by J.W.	Wade, John, b. 1643.	1683 (1683)	Wing W178; ESTC R34695	377,547	592

those strong Waters are fullest of Spirits which are first drawn and our Hearts not so entangled and encumbred with the Things of the World In the Morning we are clearest and sittest for any thing and therefore to be sure sittest for God and the Worship of God freest and freshest for holy Duties spiritual Services and religious Exercises The Morning is as much a Friend to the Graces as to the Muses As the Morning is a special Time for Study so for Duty As it is the best studying Time so it is the best praying Time The People of God have ever accounted the Morning the fittest Season for Devotion And therefore we find that holy [k] Job 1.5 See Mr. Caryl on the place Job rose up early in the Morning and offer'd Burnt-offerings Thus did Job continually Not only in the Morning but early in the Morning in the very Beginning or first of the Morning We read how God commanded that * Exod. 23.19 the first of the first Fruits of the Land should be brought into the House of the hLord So here Job gave God not only the first Fruits of the Day but the earliest Time in the Morning which is the first of the first Fruits of the Day the Morning of the Morning as I may so speak So David chooseth the Morning-season † Psal 5.3 My Voice shalt thou hear in the Morning O Lord in the Morning will I direct my Praier unto thee It is a good Thing to ‖ Psal 92.2 shew forth thy loving-kindness in the Morning (*) Psal 119.147 I prevented the drawning of the Morning and cried And again (†) Psal 139 18. When I wake I am still with thee saies he He gave God the first of his fixed and settled Thoughts Is is recorded of our blessed Saviour that he (‖) Mark i. 35. rose up in the Morning a great while before Day to go into a solitary Place to pray And 't is said of the Apostles that they [*] Acts 5.21 entred into the Temple early in the Morning So we should enter into our Closets early in the Morning and make it our first business and employment to converse with God and commune with our own Hearts to betake our selves to Praier and to [l] Who reade a Chapter when they rise Shall ne'er be troubled with ill Eyes Herbert's Poem-charms and Knots Reading of the Scripture and to give our selves to Meditation And surely as a [m] Dr. Jackson V 3. p. 92. great Divine saies excellently If Men would give some divine Precepts or Sentences full possession of their Morning Thoughts these would serve as so many Armed Men to keep out the Suggestions of the Devil the World and the Flesh from entring into their Hearts [n] Et ni Posces ante diem librum cum lumine si non Inten les animum studiis rebus honestis Invidia vel amore vigil torquebere Horat. Ep. l. 1. ep 2. The filling our Minds and possessing our Hearts with serious holy Thoughts in the first place as soon as ever we wake in the Morning is an excellent Means to prevent those frothy vain Thoughts which are apt to arise in empty Hearts As you know the taking a good Draught in the Morning is the way to keep out the Wind which would offend and troubled an empty Stomach When we first open our Eyes in a Morning as a [o] Dr. Tho. Guodwin of the Van. of Thoughts p. 32. worthy Doctor does well illustrate this matter many Vanities and Businesses stand like earnest Suiters or as diligent Clients at Lawyers Doors waiting to speak with our Thoughts and ready to press and croud in upon us but let us speak with God first and he will say something to our Hearts will fix and settle them for all Day The Morning is a special Opportunity to be carefully redeemed and the rather to be redeemed because by redeeming the Morning we are likely to redeem the whole Day following If a Watch or Clock be wound up well in the Morning 't will go right and keep true all the Day after So tho winding up of our Hearts by devout Meditation in the Morning will be a means of our regular Proceeding to the Close and End of the Day following If we awake with God in the Morning we are likely to walk with God all the Day long Our doing God service in the Morning will stand us in stead all the Day after will engage and oblige us dispose and encline us to keep a Decorum all the Day and to do nothing unworthy of our Morning's Work The serious Consideration of the Goodness and loving Kindness of God towards us his Watchfulness over us Protection Preservation Refreshment of us the very Night past will make us study to render suitably to such a Mercy and to live to him all the Day who gives us as it were a new Life every Morning Our labouring to get our Minds and Hearts early and throughly poslest in the Morning with quick and lively Apprehensions and powerful deep Impressions of the glorious divine Attributes and Perfections of God's Greatness Holiness Justice Omniscience Omnipresence will keep us close to God and our Duty all the Day Our being with God in the first place as soon as we are up every Morning this will season our Hearts spiritualize our Affections aw our Consciences and be a means to regulate our Actions and to sanctify our Employments Carriages and Converses the whole Day following Whereas if we neglect God in the Morning God may justly leave us to our selves all the Day after If we venture to go into the World before we have first go●● to God we rashly rush into Danger because we take not God along with us whose Presence Guidance Grace and Strength is our only Safety and great Security against the Malignity and Evil of the World If we don't in the Morning and Beginning of the Day implore the divine Presence and Assistance and beg God's Providence over us Direction of us and Blessing upon us If we seek not God before we seek the World before we seek our selves we are likely to do nothing but mis-carry in every Thing all the Day We are apt to be caught in every Snare to be overborn by every Corruption and overcome by every Temptation and therefore be sure to redeem the Morning-Season The fourth Particular Opportunity to be redeemed 4. The Society and Company of the most Religious and Godly is another Special Opportunity to be presently laid fast hold on and faithfully made good Use of You have here an occasion of doing good by your serious and savoury Speeches Honest Hearts will presently close with them receive and embrace them entertain and accept them and not slight and reject them scoff and mock at them Further You have here an occasion of receiving good from other's suitable and seasonable Discourses you may be edified by their Gifts profited by their Graces quickned

think yet farther That it will be an Act of Justice for God to do this That though he Sin yet he does not revoke the Sentence but in due Time will execute Judgment and Vengeance upon it for the first Sin that Man committed and for all the rest that have been acted in it That Man not only being a Tenant at will but having unworthily broken his Covenant and forfeited his Possession by breaking the Articles of his Lease his Lord at last will turn him out of Doors or rather pull down his House about his Ears and not suffer it to be alwaies a Nest of Rebels and Covenant-breakers That this World the Creature made for the Use of Man being defiled and abused by him to serve him in his Sin when the Sins of the Inhabitants of the Earth as of the * Gen. 15.16 Amorites of old shall arrive to a * Gen. 15.16 Fulness when once the rebellious Generations of Adam shall have fill'd up the Measure of their Iniquities and are ripe for Judgment the Day of Dissolution will then certainly come called expresly † 2 Pet. 3 7. the Day of Judgment and Perdition of ungodly Men That then the wicked and abominable Men shall be burnt in the Place of their Wickedness and the Objects and Instruments of their Sin shall be destroyed with them and become the Instruments of their Punishment For so the Garden of Eden wherein Man was at first plac'd was destroyed and defac'd when once he had sinned in it And what more usual even among Men than to order the Execution of notorious Malefactors in the Places where they have committed their Wickedness and to sentence the Houses wherein themselves and their Families liv'd to be demolished ‖ Dan. 3.29 Their Houses shall be made a Dunghill You have heard of great and terrible Fires in the World and of famous Cities consum'd thereby and have seen not many Years since the devouring desolating Flames of London the Metropolis and chief City of our Nation But think with thy self that all this is nothing at all to that great Fire which one Day God will kindle at once setting Heaven and Earth in a Flame together Let me here assist your Meditation by proposing and presenting to you a notable Description given by a very learned [k] Dr. More 's Myst of Godl p. 238. Concerning the Partibility of the Conflagration of the Earth See there Book 6 c. 7 8. Doctor of the general and final Conflagration of the Earth Christ will cause saies he such an universal Thunder and Lightning that it shall rattle over all the Quarters of the Earth rain down burning Comets and falling Stars and discharge such Claps of unextinguishable Frie that it will do sure Execution wherever it falls so that the Ground being excessively heated those subterraneous Mines of combustible Matter will also take Fire which inflaming the inward Exhalations of the Earth will cause a terrible Murmur under Ground so that the Earth will seem to thunder against the tearing and ratling of the Heavens and all will be fill'd with sad remugient Echo's Earth-quakes and Eruptions of Fire there will be every where and whole Cities and Countries swallowed down by the vast gapings and wide Divulsions of the Ground And this fiery Vengeance shall be so thirsty that it shall drink deep of the very Sea nor shall the Water quench her devouring Appetite but excite it Wherefore the great Channel of the Sea shall be left dry and all Rivers shall be turned into Smoak and Vapour so that the whole Earth shall be inveloped in one entire Cloud of an unspeakable Thickness which shall cause more than an Egyptian Darkness clammy and palpable to be felt which added to this choaking Heat and Stench will compleat this External Hell Consider how the Scripture testifies that God will do this and the Power of God assures us that he can do it for nothing is hard or difficult to him much less impossible Think of the Creation God's raising and building this Frame of the World out of nothing and reason thus with thy self Cannot he that made it by the Word of his Power easily dissolve it And argue further in this manner Cannot he that destroyed the old World by a Floud of Waters destroy this by Fire and cause this to die of a Feaver as the did of a Dropsy Cannot he that turned Sodom and Gomorrah into Ashes do the like with the World it self also Is not he that made Mount Sinai shake and smoak at the giving of the Law able to dissolve all these Things The close and intent Meditation of this general Dissolution will clearly convince thee that Sin is an evil and a bitter Thing and will move thee to hate and abhor to shun and avoid Sin which is of a Nature so mischievous and destructive which is the meritorious procuring Cause of so dreadful a Judgment which not only of old brought the Floud of Water upon the World of the Vngodly and forced down Gehennam de Coelo as Salvian speaks caused God to rain Hell-sire and Brimstone from Heaven * Jude 7. 2 Pet. 2.5 6. upon Sodom and Gamorrah and miserably destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and turned their fruitful Land into a barren Wilderness but will one Day set this World on fire and put it in a flame and turn this stately Structure and beautiful Frame into a rude confused Chaos The deep and earnest Thoughts of this will affect and influence thy Heart and Life and quicken thee exceedingly to all Sincerity Diligence and Zeal in the Exercise of Godliness to an holy Fear and Aw of him who can and will destroy the World 'T will constrain thee to use the Words of the Apostle and to say in good Sadness * 2 Pet. 3.11 Seeing then that all these Things shall be dissolved what manner of Person ought I to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness Seeing this Destruction shall thus involve all what an engagement does this lay upon me to live the most pure strict Life that ever Man liv'd It will incite thee by a constant course of true Piety wisely to provide for thy Escape in that Day to save and secure thy self from the Evil and Danger of it that thou maiest not be undone by this general Dissolution nor suffer Loss in this Conflagration nor perish in this Burning 'T will put thee in mind to sit thy self for this Day of Dissolution of all Things by getting the Works of the Devil throughly dissolved in thee and the Kingdom of God set up and established in thy Soul The due Consideration of this general Dissolution and final Conflagration will certainly keep thee from setting thy Heart inordinately upon any outward earthly Things from heaping up Treasure to thy self here from dreaming that any of thy Houses here shall continue for ever from having unlimited everlasting Affections for flitting fugitive transitory Things for the World the † 1