A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…

THE Sixth Grace wherein Old-age ¹doth or should excel, is Temperance and Sobriety^c. That's the Injunction of the Apostle, Tit. 2. 2. That the Aged men be sober, grave, temperate. By this Temperance, I understand that Fruit of the Spirit which bridleth our inordinate affections in all outward mercies; or more strictly, which observes a right mean in desiring, and using the Pleasures of the Senses: and so in respect of Meat, it is Abstinence; in respect of Drinking, Sobriety: in respect of other carnal pleasures, Chastity. All these the Temperate man curbs by holy Reason, and by holy Force. Hereby he stiles ⟨p. 114⟩the inordinate Desire, and restrains the Use within its due bounds; he mortifies the unlawful, and moderates the lawful pleasures and recreations of the Body; He neither absolutely refuseth them, nor inordinately desireth or useth them.

THE Sixth Grace wherein Old-age ¹doth or snould excell, is Temperance and Sobriety^c. That's the Injunction of the Apostle, Tit. 2. 2. That the Aged men be sober, grave, temperate. By this Temperance, I understand that Fruit of the Spirit which bridleth our inordinate affections in all outward mercies; or more strictly, which observes a right mean in desiring, and using the Pleasures of the Senses: and so in respect of Meat, it is Abstinence; in respect of Drinking, Sobriety: in respect of other carnal pleasures, Chastity. All these the Temperate man curbs by holy Reason, and by holy Force. Hereby he sti•es ⟨p. 114⟩the inordinate Desire, and restrains the Use within its due bounds; he mortifies the unlawful, and moderates the lawful pleasures and recreations of the Body; He neither absolutely refuseth them, nor inordinately desireth or useth them.