The Select Works of William Penn Volume 5 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1782 Excerpt: ... T THE R E F A C E. Reader, THIS enchiridion I present thee with, is the fruit of solitude: a school sew care to learn in, though none instructs us better. Some parts of it are the result of serious reflection: others, the flashings of lucid intervals: written for private satisfaction, and now published for an help to human conduct. The author blesseth God for his retirement, and kisses that gentle hand which led him into it: for though it should prove barren to the world, it can never do so to him. He has now had some time he could call his own; a property he was never so much master of besore: in which he has taken a view of himself and the world; and observed wherein he hath hit and misled the mark: what might have been done, what mended, and what avoided in his human conduct: together with the omissions and excesses of others, as well societies and governments, as private families and persons. And he verily thinks, were he to live over his lise again, he could not only, with God's grace, serve Him, but his neighbour and himself, better than he hath done, and have seven years of his time to spare. And yet, perhaps, he hath not been the worst or the idlest man in the world; nor is he the oldest.' And this is the rather said, that it might quicken thee, reader, to lose none of the time that is yet thine. There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world. Time is what we want most, but what, alas! Ha we we use worst; and for which God will certainly most strictly reckon with us, when time shall be no more. It is of that moment to us in reserence to both worlds, that I can hardly wish any man better, than that he would seriously consider what he doe...

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