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…

8. Let your Recreation, O my Children, be sparing, for they are but Condimentum your sauce, and not nutrimentum, your nourishment, your Cordial and not your diet.

9. Of all Books study the Bible, of all duties be much in prayer, of all graces exercise faith, of all days observe the Lords day, and of all things in Heaven or Earth be sure that you get an interest in God by Jesus Christ.

9. Of all Books study the Bible, of all duties be much in prayer, of all graces exercise faith, of all dayes observe the Lords day, and of all things in Heaven or Earth be sure that you get an interest in God by Jesus Christ.

10. And by any means, O my Children and Friends, le• brotherly love continue, for love is the fulfilling of the Law: who can break a faggot when the sticks are joined together by the common Band? but if the sticks be parted, how easily are they all broken? and what is the reason that such judicial breaches are made upon us, but because our pride and want of love doth make such sinful breaches among us. Cyprian tells us that the divisions and dissentions of the Churches was the cause of the persecution in the primitive times, for, said he, Those evils had not come to the brethren, if the brethren had been united or animated into one. But I am sure that our Saviour Christ saith, By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if you love one another, and John the Disciple of love saith, By this shall you know that you are translated from death to life because you love the Brethren▪ See therefore that you love the Brethren, and that because they are Brethren. For possibly a man may love those that are good, yet not because they are good, for then he would love them better that are better, and those best that are best: if you love those that are good it is well, yet this may be from some self concernment, and your love then will be narrowed and your affections monopolized by some only of your own persuasion or relation, but if you love those that are good, because they are good, this is better, for then you will love all that is good, though of some different persuasion from you: for, a quatenus ad omnia. from all to all, is a good consequence. Thus therefore, O my Sons, let your love be stated, continued, and increased, towards men, but above all be sure that you love Jesus, also for Jesus. Jesus is hardly loved for Jesus, but do you love Christ for himself, and let the only measure of your love be to know no measure. Thus let