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

1. Discontentedness of mind. This is a Distemper to which Old-age is very liable. They want this, and they want that, which perhaps they have had heretofore, and they cannot bear these wants. One loss or cross befalls them, and ere they have well digested this, another comes. One while this Disease or pain afflicts them, and that no sooner over, but they are smitten in another part, so that they are prone to perpetual murmurings. Never was any bodies life so miserable, as theirs; they are ready to quarrel at God, at men, at any thing, at nothing^g. They are neither content to live, nor ready to die; but yet ⟨p. 275⟩seem to be fallen out with life, and to be in love with death, whereupon their common note is, I have lived too long, O that I were in my grave.

1. Discontentedness of mind. This is a Distemper to which Old-age is very liable. They want this, and they want that, which perhaps they have had heretofore, and they cannot bear these wants. One loss or cross befalls them, and e're they have well digested this, another comes. One while this Disease or pain afflicts them, and that no sooner over, but they are smitten in another part, so that they are prone to perpetual murmurings. Never was any bodies life so miserable, as theirs; they are ready to quarrel at God, at men, at any thing, at nothing^g. They are neither content to live, nor ready to dy; but yet ⟨p. 275⟩seem to be fallen out with life, and to be in love with death, whereupon their common note is, I have lived too long, O that I were in my grave.

1. gOmne p• catum impatientiae ascribendum. Tert: de pat. c. 6.