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

I Am come now in the Fifth place to¹ examine the Inconveniences and Disadvantages of Old-age; adding withal somewhat towards the Mitigation thereof, as I pass along. Some here set themselves with immoderate vehemence to cry down Old-age, and to load it with such intolerable Miseries, as might affright one: And to this purpose they muster all the Evils which are either the effect of mens Vices, or other separable Accidents of their Age, and put all these upon its score to inflame the reckoning^k: Insomuch that some of the Old Philosophers took upon them to quarrel with Providence, for giving man Life, and thereby involving him in a continual state of misery. And all this, partly out of their Ignorance of mans Primitive happiness, and woeful fall, and partly out of their dim-sightedness about his endless felicity; about all which material ⟨p. 129⟩points they lived in great uncertainty.

I Am come now in the Fifth place to¹ examine the Inconveniences and Disadvantages of Old-age; adding withall somewhat towards the Mitigation thereof, as I pass along. Some here set themselves with immoderate vehemence to cry down Old-age, and to load it with such intolerable Miseries, as might affright one: And to this purpose they muster all the Evils which are either the effect of mens Vices, or other separable Accidents of their Age, and put all these upon its score to inflame the reckoning^k: Insomuch that some of the Old Philosophers took upon them to quarrel with Providence, for giving man Life, and thereby involving him in a continual state of misery. And all this, partly out of their Ignorance of mans Primitive happiness, and woful fall, and partly out of their dim-sightedness about his endless felicity; about all which material ⟨p. 129⟩points they lived in great uncertainty.

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