The Redemption of Time: OR, A WORD TO THE WISE; Persuading 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 passed 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 virtue for to 

rule passions.  
break evil customs.  
overcome evil occasions.    
not serving God as 

nature bond them.  
grace moved them.  
promise in baptism urged them.      
The time they have lost, than 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 enemy's 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 God's 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 virtue.  
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 combat 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.  
judgement impaireth.        
Provide for things to come with fear of 

The day of death, than 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 

seethe 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.  
enemy's must be confounded.    
presence is unavoidable, for that 

Angels withhold.  
the Devils draw back.  
no place will protect.      
The danger of hell, where the 

place is 

dark.  
uneasy.  
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.