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

But yet this Burden is not to be appropriated to Old-age, as if they and they only were the subject of distempers and of pain. For, if we observe it, we shall find Diseases more common yea and more dangerous among Young people, than among Old^g. In the Sacred Story you will ⟨p. 161⟩meet with more young People brought to our Saviour for Cure, than Old. There was Jairus daughter, there was the Nobleman's son, there was the Syrophenician's daughter, and then the Centurions servant, with many others. In contagious Diseases it's evident that they are sooner infected, and every Register will inform us, that a far greater number of Infants and Young People are yearly carried to their long home, than of Aged Persons. And then for Casualties, there are far more of young and middle-aged persons, that are slain and taken captives, than of the Old.

But yet this Burden is not to be appropriated to Old-age, as if they and they only were the subject of distempers and of pain. For, if we observe it, we shall find Diseases more common yea and more dangerous among Young people, than among Old^g. In the Sacred Story you will ⟨p. 161⟩meet with more young People brought to our Saviour for Cure, than Old. There was Iairus daughter, there was the Noblemans son, there was the Syrophenicians daughter, and then the Centurions servant, with many others. In contagious Diseases it's evident that they are sooner infected, and every Register will inform us, that a far greater number of Infants and Young People are yearly carried to their long home, than of Aged Persons. And then for Casualties, there are far more of young and middle-aged persons, that are slain and taken captives, than of the Old.

1. gFaciliùs in morbos incidune adolescents, graviùs aegrotant, tristiùs curantur. Cicer.Faciliùs in morbos incidune adolescentes, graviùs aegrotant, tristiùs curantur. Cicer.