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Again, when a man is old in knowledge and obedience, his age is blessed. Prov 16.31. The hoary head is a Crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness, If we may say of it, as Boaz of Ruth, Ruth. 3.10. that it is better in the latter end, than at the beginning. The Israelite gathered every day a Homer full of Manna: but on he day before the Sabbath two Homers full. Be gathering in youth every day a ⟨p. 272⟩little; but in old age twice so much, because thy Sabbath is near. Old men are busy to gather goods for their posterity, but their fittest employment should be to gather grace for themselves. It is thy last time of gathering, therefore ply it. Gen. 18.12. As Sarah said, Shall I lust now I am old? So shall I covet now I am old? shall I be drunk now I am old? shall I lie now I am old? Those courses are reprovable in youth, damnable in age. The grey head is a shame, if it be found in the way of wickedness. As our bodies decrease in strength, our souls must increase in grace: mending the unsoundness of our limbs, with the soundness of our lives: recompensing a weak body with a strong faith. No marvel if thy Ages reverend flood ebbs into air, when thou art old, not good! where thy moral corruption is greater than thy mortal corruption: and the conscience is more rotten than the carcass. It is a common saying; He that will be old long, must be old while he is young. Express the sobriety of age in thy youth, that the remembrance of thy youth may sweeten the bitterness of thy age. A young Saint, an old Angel? So then let us spend our life in the thriftiness of grace; that when youth hath ended infancy, age ended youth, and death ended all; we may be young again in heaven. Into which eternal doors old age shall never enter: but every body shall be made young for ever, strong for ever, healthful for ever, beautiful for ever; fashioned like to the glorious body of Christ, and in that glory be preserved for ever and ever.

Againe, when a man is old in knowledge and obedience, his age is blessed. Prov 16.31. The hoary head is a Crowne of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousnesse, If we may say of it, as Boaz of Ruth, Ruth. 3.10. that it is better in the latter end, than at the beginning. The Israelite gathered every day a Homer full of Manna: but on he day before the Sabbath two Homers full. Be gathering in youth every day a