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The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4 Meditations of the misery of old age.
What is old age, but the receptacle of all maladies? for if thy lot be to draw thy days to a long date; in comes old-bald-headed age, stooping under dotage, with his wrinkled face, rotten teeth, and stinking breath: jesty with choler, withered with dryness, dimmed with blindness, absurded with deafness, overwhelmed with sickness, and bowed together with weakness: having no use of any sense, but of the sense of pain: which so racketh every member of his body, that it never easeth him of grief, till he hath ⟨p. 88⟩thrown him down to his grave.
WHat is old age, but the receptacle of all maladies? for if thy lot be to draw thy dayes to a long date; in comes olde-bald-headed age, stooping vnder dotage, with his wrinckled face, rotten teeth, and stinking breath: iesty with choler, withered with drynesse, dimmed vvith blindnesse, absurded with deafenesse, ouerwhelmed with sicknesse, and bowed together with weaknesse: hauing no vse of any sense, but of the sense of paine: which so racketh euery member of his body, that it neuer easeth him of griefe, till hee hath ⟨p. 88⟩throwne him downe to his graue.
Thus far of the miseries, which accompany the body: Now of the miseries, which accompany chiefly the soul in this life.
Thus farre of the miseries, which accompanie the body: Now of the miseries, which accompany chiefly the soule in this life.