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A word to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel College…A vvord to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge…
A word to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and late preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. I commend this to be reprinted as a profitable and serious discourse. James Allen.A vvord to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and late preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. I commend this to be reprinted as a profitable and serious discourse. James Allen.
Boston: printed for John, 1679
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.
2. Then are they apt to be too covetous and tenacious for the things of this world: fugientem sequimur Mundum: as wantonness is the young mans vice so covetousness is the old mans sin.
3. Then are they apt to be too timorous & fearful, we read but of one man that came to Christ by night out of fear, and he was a rich and old man, Nicodemus.
4. Then are they apt to be too touchy, Peevish, angry, and froward, for old age is a continued sickness, and in sickness men are apt to be angry.
5. Then are they also unapt to be taught, and are very unteachable, they think they know more then others, and that they are not now to learn, Eccles. 4 13.