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

In short, 1. All Aged People are not oppressed with the fear of Death. Too few there are that think at all of it. Men generally put far from them the evil day; and it will be an evil day to such as put it far from them. Most people can think of any place in the Parish rather than the Church-yard; yea, I doubt it be one of the Faults of the Aged to think seldom of Death, and they who think little of it, are in no danger of being frighted with its thoughts.

2. The Young have the same reason to be concerned about Dying as the Old. For Youth hath more ways to Death than Age hath. And far more dye in their Youth, than that dye for Age. It's true, they hope to live longer, but their hopes have no good ground at all. They have neither Promise nor Experience to build their hopes upon. And in Young Peoples Death, they being in their strength, ⟨p. 190⟩Nature receives a more violent shock, whereas the Aged are more quietly extinguished, like a Candle in the Socket.

2. The Young have the same reason to be concern'd about Dying as the Old. For Youth hath more wayes to Death than Age hath. And far more dye in their Youth, than that dye for Age. It's true, they hope to live longer, but their hopes have no good ground at all. They have neither Promise nor Experience to build their hopes upon. And in Young Peoples Death, they being in their strength, ⟨p. 190⟩Nature receives a more violent shock, whereas the Aged are more quietly extinguished, like a Candle in the Socket.

3. No good man need be affrighted at the approach of Death. For the power and sting of Death is utterly taken away by our Saviours Death, and so it can do us no hurt