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A practical discourse concerning the redeeming of time by Edward Pelling, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to Their Majesties, and rector of Petworth in Sussex.
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Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.
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1695
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bless us and keep us The Lord make his Face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us The Lord lift up his Countenance upon us and give us Peace both now and evermore Amen Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name c. Evening Prayers ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all Men we acknowledge and bewail our manifold Sins and Wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by Thought Word and Deed against thy Divine Majesty provoking most justly thy Wrath and Indignation against us We do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our Misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the Burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us most merciful Father for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please Thee in Newness of Life to the Honour and Glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LIghten our Darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great Mercy defend us from all Perils and Dangers of this Night for the Love of thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen O Everlasting God who hast ordained and constituted the Services of Angels and Men in a wonderful Order mercifully grant that as thy Aoly Angels alway do thee Service in Heaven so by thy Appointment they may succour and defend us on Earth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant O Lord that as we are Baptized into the Death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ So by continual mortifying our corrupt Affections we may be buried with him and that through the Grave and Gate of Death we may pass to our joyful Resurrection for his Merits who Died and was Buried and Rose again for us thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and Everlasting God who art always more ready to hear than we to pray and are want to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the Abundance of thy Mercy forgiving us those things whereof our Conscience is afraid and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask but through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. FINIS BOOKS Printed for and Sold by John Everingham at the Star in Ludgate-street A Further Enquiry into several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probable Resolution of them By John Edwards B. D. sometimes Fellow of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge Octavo A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfections of the Books of the Old and New Testament with a continued Illustration of several difficult Texts of Scripture throughout the whole Work By John Edwards Fellow of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge Octavo Miscellany Essays By Monsieur St. Euremont with a Character by a Person of Honour here in England Continued by Mr. Dryden In Two Volumes Octavo The True Royal English School for their Majesties Three Kingdoms being a Catalogue of all the Words in the Bible Together with a Praxis in Prose and Verses and Variety of Pictures all beginning with one Syllable and proceeding by degrees to Eight divided and not divided whereby all Persons both Young and Old of the meanest Abilities may with little Help be able to read the whole Bible over distinctly easily and more speedily than in any other Method with Directions to find out any Word Together with an Exposition on the Creed By Tobias Ellis late Minister of the Gospel Octavo Letters on several Subjects By the late Pious Dr. Henry Moore With several other Letters To which is added by the Publisher Two Letters One to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock Dean of St. Paul's and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley With other Discourses Published by the Reverend Mr. Elys Octavo An Answer to the Brief History of the Unitarians call'd also Socinians By Will. Basset Rector of St. Swithin London Octavo The Commonwealth's-man Unmask'd Or a Just Rebuke to the Author of the Account of Denmark In Two Parts Twelves A New Family Book Or The True Interest of Families Being Directions to Parents and Children and to those who are instead of Parents shewing them their several Duties and how they may be happy in one another Together with several Prayers for Families and Children and Graces Before and After Meat To which is Annexed A Discourse about the Right Way of Improving our Time By James Kirkwood Rector of Astwick in Bedfordshire with a Preface by Dr. Horneck The Second Edition Monarchia Microeosmi The Origin Vicissitudes and Periods of Vital Government in Man for a further Discovery of Diseases incident to Humane Nature By Everard Maynwaring M. D. Twelves The Gauger and Measurer's Companion being a Compendious Way of Gaging Superficies and Solids with the Reasons of most Multiplications and Divisions used in Measurations and all difficult Points made plain and easie with a Way to Gage all Quantities under a Gallon Also a Brief Description of the Gage-Point for Ale and Wine Gallons with Directions to find the same and the Contents of a Circle in all its Parts the exact Method of measuring Land Board Glass Pavement Stone be it of what Form soever together with a Globe and Round Timber both Decimals and Vulgarly With Useful Tables a Table of Cylinders and a Treatise of Weights and Measures To which is added at the Request of some Gentlemen a True Method of Brewing Strong Ale in London as well and as good as in any Place in the Country With Directions for Clarifying any Ale be it never so thick in few Hours with Thirty Cuts By James Lightbody Philomath Twelves Moral Maxims and Reflections In Four Parts Written in French by the Duke of Rochefoucault and now made English Twelves
actually fix'd upon them already imployed and Engaged in those Exercises which are the Life of Angels and of the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect To admire and adore and love and praise God is the everlasting business of the Blessed above And this we do here below though not in that intense Degree when we worship him in Truth and in the Beauty of Holiness when we prostrate our selves before him under a profound and awful Sense of his super-excellent Majesty when our Minds are fix'd upon him as the Glorious and Ravishing Object of our Contemplations when the Faculties of our Souls are acting vigorously upon him when we Exalt and Magnifie him in our Hearts when our Desires stream out after him as the only Good we long for when our Thoughts are full of rapturous Idea's of his Perfections when we celebrate and set him forth as the greatest wisest and best of all Beings when our Hearts are inflamed with the Love of him and when we offer up our Prayers and Praises to him with Affections as high as Heaven and as large as the Universe And can any time be better or so well spent as that which is thus employed This is to Redeem ones Time to the best purpose and in some Sense to live it over again by following the great Work of ones whole life close and so by living much in a little And the design of this Consideration is to stir you up to the Love and Practice of Devotion as a proper way of making your Life up wherein soever you may have been hitherto defective To recover what hath been mis-spent and to fit your self for God and Heaven without frequent Acts of Piety is impossible Rather it is a way to lose on and spend amiss still and to make your Condition every day worse and worse And this is one great Reason that there are so many Evil People in the World because they neglect a Course of Devotion which if diligently and rightly followed could not chuse but make them better I do not mean that every one is a Saint that resorts to the Church or that the repeating of so many good Prayers is enough to dispose and qualifie People for Eternal Happiness No there are some that content themselves with the bare performance of the outward Work and there are others that go to the Temple rather in compliance with a Custom or out of Compliment and Civility to the Laws than for Conscience sake towards God But this is my meaning that when Men apply their Souls to the use of God's Ordinances as a necessary Duty and seriously intend to do themselves good by the use of them and go about it with Sincerity of Mind and Exercise themselves in it with attentive Zeal and with Humble Fervent and Devout Spirits when their Hearts are thus Honestly dispos'd they take such a ready Course to fit themselves for Heaven as God will be sure to Bless and Prosper with success if they persevere unto the end in so doing They are then in God's way and in the way of the Holy Spirit to enlighten their Understandings to guide them into the Truth to renew their Minds to sanctifie their Affections to direct their Wills to improve and perfect their Natures and to assist and strengthen them unto every good work And by this means as they obtain pardon for their past Miscarriages so they gradually retrieve their former Losses and make the time past their own again by their extraordinary Husbandry of the remainder and by filling up an Hiatus with a proportionable Supplement 2. Secondly As the diligent attendance upon God's Ordinances helps us to redeem the time that is Gone so it serves to keep us from Losing more for the Future We may reckon that time to be Lost which is spent either after a Wicked or after a Vain manner That is when the Conscience contracteth some great Guilt in the spending of it or when the Man gets no solid Benefit or Satisfaction by it though strictly speaking we cannot affirm it is sinned away and in both these respects we shall see that a course of Devotion secures us from being any considerable Losers 1. First That time is to be accounted Lost which is spent in Wickedness When Vice takes it up so much of our Life is gone to our eternal Prejudice and Hurt unless the Wickedness be retracted by timely Repentance And when it is retracted a Man doth what he can to undo his Actions and to unlive his former Life and so begins as it were his days again To be sure he himself reckons so much of his time quite thrown oway is willing to rase it out of his own Memory and heartily wisheth that the just Judge of all the Earth would forget it too and never impute or account it unto him Now People that are ever mindful of their Devotions are not in danger of losing their time This way because they are assured that if they regard Iniquity in their Hearts the Lord will not hear them Psal 66. 18. Nay that their Sacrifice will be an Abomination Prov. 15. 8. Upon which account 't is morally impossible for them to Sin and Pray too lest instead of Mercies they should draw down a Thunderbolt and instead of Bread should receive a Stone or a Scorpion They who have a sense of God must needs be shie of offering up such Prayers as are enough to put them out of Countenance and out of Hope too such Prayers as they know will Recoil upon them and not only fly in their faces but terrifie and gall their very Consciences also But in truth we cannot suppose Men of Pious Minds to spend their precious Time to such bad purposes as these because the Notions they have of God's Majesty of his Omnipresence and Omniscience of his Justice Holiness and the like are a continual check upon them to govern their natural Inclinations and to restrain them from those evil Courses into which others run without Fear or Wit as the Horse rusheth into the Battel as the Prophet speaks Jer. 8. 6. Besides as they have not the Heart or Face to Sin so neither have they those Temptations and Opportunities which the Devil Ministreth daily to those who are such Strangers to the Throne of Grace as if they lived Without God in the World Such Men are never out of the Devil's road and therefore it is no wonder if Vice be the trade they bestow their Time upon no wonder if a Luxurious Table or a Dalilah's Lap or a Drunken Society or Prophane Discourse or the study of Mischief or the Drudgery of Covetousness or the Pride of Life taketh up those Hours which God hath a right to Ungodly Principles and Contempt of things Sacred do always betray Men to some wickedness or other nor cannot be but Irreligion and Vice must go together so that ' mongst other Arguments that might be heaped up to encourage us to a life of Devotion this is one that