An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

First, Through old age; for then the moisture of the body being consumed, and so the skin contracted, wrinkles appear: These natural wrinkles cannot be avoided, if nature hold out to old age.

First, Through old age; for then the moysture of the body being consumed, and so the skin contracted, wrinckles appeare: These naturall wrinckles cannot be avoyded, if nature hold out to old age.

Secondly, There are accidental wrinkles, such as are caused by strong diseases, which sucking up, or drawing out the moisture of the body, fade the beauty of it. Great sicknesses hasten on grey hairs, and make a young man look old. Job was not filled with the wrinkles of old age (he was in the strength of nature at that time) but he was filled ⟨p. 257⟩with the wrinkles of sickness and sorrow; grief had made furrows in his face, and his tears had often filled them: we commonly say, Sorrow is dry; 'tis so, because it is a dryer. Solomon tells us, that A merry heart doth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit (which is the effect of much sorrow) dryeth up the bones (Prov. 17.22.) The Church cries out in the Book of Lamentations, My flesh and my skin he hath made old (Lam. 3.4.) How did God make them old? He made them old not by giving them many years, but by giving them many troubles. Many troubles in one year, will make a man older then many years.

Secondly, There are accidentall wrinckles, such as are caused by strong diseases, which sucking up, or drawing out the moysture of the body, fade the beauty of it. Great sicknesses hasten on gray hayres, and make a young man looke old. Job was not filled with the wrinckles of old age (hee was in the strength of nature at that time) but he was filled ⟨p. 257⟩