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

So also you should be instant with the Lord for his Church, Truth, and Gospel. So was David, Psal. 122. So was Paul, always in every Prayer of his. And we cannot better approve our selves to be members of that mystical Body, than by ⟨p. 263⟩our incessant Prayers for the Increase, the Unity and the Happiness thereof. And when you are thinking of your Country, of your Kindred, and of your Friends, add an Ejaculation to every of these your thoughts for a blessing upon them. These are Employments fit for a Christian Aged person, and will become them better, than endless Complaints, or groundless Presages. Pray, pray, and do not Prophesy, was holy Mr. Palmers saying to those, that were always boding misery. I tell you, that you may do your selves, the Church, the Nation, and Posterity more service by your fervent Prayers, than you have done by the cares and labours of your whole life.

So also you should be instant with the Lord for his Church, Truth, and Gospel. So was David, Psal. 122. So was Paul, alwayes in every Prayer of his. And we cannot better approve our selves to be members of that mystical Body, than by ⟨p. 263⟩our incessant Prayers for the Increase, the Unity and the Happiness thereof. And when you are thinking of your Countrey, of your Kindred, and of your Friends, add an Ejaculation to every of these your thoughts for a blessing upon them. These are Employments fit for a Christian Aged person, and will become them better, than endless Complaints, or groundless Presages. Pray, pray, and do not Prophesie, was holy Mr. Palmers saying to those, that were alwayes boding misery. I tell you, that you may do your selves, the Church, the Nation, and Posterity more service by your fervent Prayers, than you have done by the cares and labours of your whole life.

And then, 2. For Praises; when you consider all the Good which God hath done In you, the Good he hath done For you, and the Good he hath done By you, you cannot sure be silent. Reflect upon your own Hearts, and remember what a plight you were in, when his Grace and Mercy found you out; what Methods he hath used to recover you; what light and love and life he hath bestowed upon you; what outward Means and inward Motions he hath vouchsafed you; how he hath rescued you out of