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

Furthermore, the Religious Old person hath an unexpressible Pleasure in the Reflection of a well-spent Life, and upon the various Preservations and Deliverances, which the Lord hath vouchsafed him, out of many Temptations and Afflictions. They have also the solid comfort of seeing their Posterity grow up in the endowments of Mind, Body or Estate; and so of a Generation after them to serve and honour God, while the World stands.

Furthermore, the Religious Old person hath an unexpressible Pleasure in the Reflexion of a well-spent Life, and upon the various Preservations and Deliverances, which the Lord hath vouchsafed him, out of many Temptations and Afflictions. They have also the solid comfort of seeing their Posterity grow up in the endowments of Mind, Body or Estate; and so of a Generation after them to serve and honour God, while the World stands.

There are also several honest Recreations, in which their Years do not hinder them. And however, it can be no disparagement ⟨p. 138⟩to them, if they can take as much Pleasure in Reading and Meditating upon Gods Word, as ever they did in any other Divertisement whatsoever^t. This is certain, that their Pleasures are more Pure, more Sound, more Strong, and more Lasting, than the frothy and unsatisfactory pleasures of Sense and Sin, which are but for a Season.

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