The Redemption of Time: OR, A WORD TO THE WISE; Perswading and earnestly entreating them, as they tender the Salvation of their Souls to all eternity, to mind the time past, present, and to come, before it be too late; drawn from those pathetical words of Moses,

‘O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their later end.’Deut. 32.29.
  • O that Men would
    • Be wise in lamenting things past with sor­row, viz.
      • The evils they have committed against
        • God in
          • thought,
          • word and
          • deed.
        • their neighbour in harming him in
          • body.
          • soul.
          • fame.
          • substance.
        • themselves by
          • sinning without fear.
          • proceeding without shame.
          • persevering without remorse.
      • The good they have omitted in
        • rooting out vices rising out of
          • nature.
          • frailty.
          • malice.
        • not getting vertue for to
          • rule passions.
          • break evil customs.
          • overcome evil occasions.
        • not serving God as
          • nature bound them.
          • grace moved them.
          • promise in baptism urged them.
      • The time they have lost, then which nothing is more
        • precious to
          • gain heaven.
          • avoid hell.
          • lessen temporal pains.
        • slippery, because time
          • past is ended.
          • to come is not begun.
          • present is but a moment.
        • irrecoverable, either by
          • price,
          • power or
          • prayer.
      • The death of Christ,
        • by his enemies cruelty, because
          • the man was innocent.
          • the manner unmerciful.
          • the malice excessive.
        • by his friends ungratefully, because they either
          • betrayed him.
          • denied him.
          • fled from him.
        • for his friends and enemies willingly,
          • to save them from hell.
          • to procure them grace.
          • to buy them heaven.
    • Understand things pre­sent with shame, viz.
      • the multitude of Gods benefits in
        • soul, by
          • curing it from sin.
          • enduing it with grace.
          • helping it with Sacraments.
        • body, by keeping it
          • from infinite diseases.
          • from maims and deformities.
          • from want and necessities.
        • goods, by
          • substance.
          • children.
          • friends.
      • The vanity of the world, whereof the
        • pleasures are
          • few.
          • short.
          • damnable.
        • miseries are
          • infinite in number.
          • grievous in quality.
          • common in experience.
        • fruits are
          • contempt of God.
          • carlesness of the soul.
          • final perdition.
      • Their frailty in sinning by reason of the
        • flesh that
          • followeth sense and appetite.
          • resisteth reason and grace.
          • betrayeth the soul.
        • devil, whose
          • malice is implacable.
          • deceits are infinite.
          • assaults continual.
        • world, that ministereth
          • occasions of sin.
          • oppressions of vertue.
          • cumbers of body and mind.
        • infancy is a dream without use of
          • will.
          • memory.
          • understanding.
        • youth is a madness full of
          • idle words.
          • roving thoughts.
          • disordered deeds.
        • manhood is a combate with
          • evil customs of things past.
          • occasions of things present.
          • fear of danger and evil to come.
        • age is a sickness wherein the
          • body languisheth.
          • senses fail.
          • judgment impaireth.
    • Provide for things to come with fear of
      • The day of death, then which no­thing is more
        • certain to
          • sever us from the body.
          • cut us off from the world.
          • summon us before the judge.
        • uncertain
          • in what manner.
          • in what state.
          • in what time and place.
        • bitter, by reason of
          • the pangs of the body.
          • the remorse of conscience.
          • the fear of damnation.
      • The appearance before the Judge, whose
        • wisdom is infallible, for that it
          • seeth into all places.
          • searcheth the hearts of all persons.
          • knoweth the course of all times.
        • justice is inflexible, for that his
          • mercy was refused.
          • injuries must be revenged.
          • enemies must be confounded.
        • presence is unavoidable, for that
          • Angels withold.
          • the Devils draw back.
          • no place will protect.
      • The danger of hell, where the
        • place is
          • dark.
          • uneasie.
          • loathsome.
        • torments are
          • infinite.
          • uncessant.
          • everlasting.
        • company consisteth of
          • the devils.
          • the wicked.
          • the worm of conscience.
      • The loss of hea­ven, where the
        • place is
          • delightsome.
          • ample.
          • glorious.
        • company is
          • the Trinity.
          • the humanity of Christ.
          • all the Saints.
        • felicity is such as
          • neither eye hath seen.
          • nor ear hath heard.
          • nor heart hath conceived.
By R. B.

LONDON: Printed for Tho. Clarke, at the South-entrance of the Royal Exchange. 1663.

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