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A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…
A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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2. Another Temptation which you that are Old are in danger of, is Hardness of Heart and Security. You ha• sinned often, and perhaps repented bu• seldom: you have heard and read many convincing Sermons, and made but slender application of them: you have seen many swept away by the hand of God, and you have escaped: yea some of you peradventure have lived long in some sinful ⟨p. 277⟩course, are grown Old in adulteries, Ezek. 23. 43. or in oppression, or in some other Sin. These things you have done, and the Lord hath kept Silence, and now you are ready to think, that He is such a one as your selves, and to bless your selves in your woeful ways, till your iniquity be found to be hateful. The Aged person surely must have either a very tender heart, or a very hard one. If Gods Ordinances and Providences, that is Mercies and Afflictions, have made a due impression upon you, your hearts must be very soft, but otherwise, you are in the greatest danger of a hard heart, and a spirit of slumber.
2. Another Temptation which you that are Old are in danger of, is Hardness of Heart and Security. You ha• sinned often, and perhaps repented bu• seldom: you have heard and read many convincing Sermons, and made but slender application of them: you have seen many swept away by the hand of God, and you have escaped: yea some of you peradventure have lived long in some sinful ⟨p. 277⟩course, are grown Old in adulteries, Ezek. 23. 43. or in oppression, or in some other Sin. These things you have done, and the Lord hath kept Silence, and now you are ready to think, that He is such a one as your selves, and to bless your selves in your woful wayes, till your iniquity be found to be hateful. The Aged person surely must have either a very tender heart, or a very hard one. If Gods Ordinances and Providences, that is Mercies and Afflictions, have made a due impression upon you, your hearts must be very soft, but otherwise, you are in the greatest danger of a hard heart, and a spirit of slumber.