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

For as was noted before, your labouring and travelling days are done, your Hands and Feet have done their work: the best service you can now do is upon your knees. There you may do much, therein you may engage Him who can do All: nothing can stand before the prayer of Faith. And therefore, when you reflect upon the slips and falls in the course of your Life, so that your hearts begin to ache and faint for fear, then enter into your Closet, and pour out your hearts before God, and that will revive you. When that coward Satan sets upon an Aged man or woman, with his Assault and Battery, either to weaken their faith, or to unravel their repentance, or to cloud their comforts, their only course is to run to God by Prayer; God is a refuge for us. When we feel the decays of Nature, and are almost overwhelmed with Distempers or Troubles, then let us by Prayer cast our burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain us. Thus that learned and holy Rivet ^ddid every day in his Old-age repeat the seventeenth and eighteenth verses of the seventy first Psalm. ⟨p. 262⟩O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am Old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have showed thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

For as was noted before, your labouring and travelling dayes are done, your Hands and Feet have done their work: the best service you can now do is upon your knees. There you may do much, therein you may ingage Him who can do All: nothing can stand before the prayer of Faith. And therefore, when you reflect upon the slips and falls in the course of your Life, so that your hearts begin to ake and faint for fear, then enter into your Closet, and pour out your hearts before God, and that will revive you. When that coward Satan sets upon an Aged man or woman, with his Assault and Battery, either to weaken their faith, or to unravel their repentance, or to cloud their comforts, their only course is to run to God by Prayer; God is a refuge for us. When we feel the decayes of Nature, and are almost overwhelmed with Distempers or Troubles, then let us by Prayer cast our burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain us. Thus that learned and holy Rivet ^ddid every day in his Old-age repeat the seventeenth and eighteenth verses of the seventy first Psalm.