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

Now for your Direction in this great Work, your present business is to get a Competence of Knowledge, in the Doctrine of Religion: and then searching your own Hearts to compare them with the holy Law of God. For example, look your face in the glass of that hundred ⟨p. 247⟩and nineteenth Psalm, or of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh of Matthew, and then, through Gods help you will presently find the dissimilitude, yea the contrariety between them. And then fix your mind upon the Wrath of God, hanging over all persons in your Condition, and upon the sufficient satisfaction made by Jesus Christ for all that believe and repent, and apply all this to your selves. Frequent the serious Preaching of Gods word, and begin to pray in good earnest, Turn thou me and I shall be turned▪ and be assured, that Spirit, which inclines you to the use of these means, will breath life into your dead and dry bones, and make you new Creatures.

Now for your Direction in this great Work, your present business is to get a Competence of Knowledge, in the Doctrine of Religion: and then searching your own Hearts to compare them with the holy Law of God. For example, look your face in the glass of that hundred ⟨p. 247⟩and nineteenth Psalm, or of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh of Matthew, and then, through Gods help you will presently find the dissimilitude, yea the contrariety between them. And then fix your mind upon the Wrath of God, hanging over all persons in your Condition, and upon the sufficient satisfaction made by Iesus Christ for all that believe and repent, and apply all this to your selves. Frequent the serious Preaching of Gods word, and begin to pray in good earnest, Turn thou me and I shall be turned▪ and be assured, that Spirit, which inclines you to the use of these means, will breath life into your dead and dry bones, and make you new Creatures.

And in case you find your selves at a loss in this affair, repair to some Able and faithful Minister of Christ, and be not afraid or ashamed to lay open your Condition, and follow his guidance therein. For if men are not content, in case of an Infirmity of body, to hear the Physic Lectures, or to read books of Receipts, but will state their own case to the Physician himself; and will do the like to the Lawyer in weighty cases concerning their Estates, how much more need have you of a Godly Divine, to direct