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

And for the Sufferings in the World; man whether he be born to an Estate or not, yet is born unto troubles as the sparks fly upward. We meet them in every stage of our Life; we come into the world with Cries, and go out with groans; and a great part of the space between, is replenished with sighs, and ⟨p. 229⟩cares, and troubles. Some inflicted by the hand of God, and some by the hand of Man. One while pain or sickness upon the body, another while wants or losses in our estates; sometimes wounded in our names, and sometimes in the unhappy life, or untimely death of our Relations; yea if we escape these, and have a perpetual Sun-shine, yet the cares and troubles that attend Prosperity are not few nor small. So that when God surveyed the world at first, he pronounced all was good; but when the wisest of men had made his survey of it since the Fall, he pronounced all things in it to be vanity, and vexation of spirit; and the Aged man can conclude it by his own experience, to be a sea of storms, a sink of sins, and a very prison to the soul.

And for the Sufferings in the World; man whether he be born to an Estate or not, yet is born unto troubles as the sparks flie upward. We meet them in every stage of our Life; we come into the world with Cries, and go out with groans; and a great part of the space between, is replenisht with sighs, and ⟨p. 229⟩cares, and troubles. Some inflicted by the hand of God, and some by the hand of Man. One while pain or sickness upon the body, another while wants or losses in our estates; sometimes wounded in our names, and sometimes in the unhappy life, or untimely death of our Relations; yea if we escape these, and have a perpetual Sun-shine, yet the cares and troubles that attend Prosperity are not few nor small. So that when God surveyed the world at first, he pronounced all was good; but when the wisest of men had made his survey of it since the Fall, he pronounced all things in it to be vanity, and vexation of spirit; and the Aged man can conclude it by his own experience, to be a sea of storms, a sink of sins, and a very prison to the soul.