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 / by R. B. R. B. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08405 of text R224302 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B169A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 8 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08405 Wing B169A ESTC R224302 64550902 ocm 64550902 184340 2264198675

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08405) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184340) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2858:18) 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 / by R. B. R. B. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for Tho. Clarke, at the South-Entrance of the Royal Exchange, London : 1663. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Christian life -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo 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, R. B 1663 1 789 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2011-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2011-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2011-02 Sampled and proofread 2011-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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.