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

Watch and pray therefore, in the fear of God, against this dangerous Temptation. They are most guilty of this distemper, that were never afraid of it^m. Preserve a due tenderness in your Consciences, suffer not any sin to lie upon them unrepented. Endeavour to have daily a clearer sight of sin, and a deeper sense of the evil of it. Let the exemplary Judgments upon others, startle you. Know, that if you sleep in sin, your Preservation will be but a Reservation to some fearful issue. Remember that though a Sinner do evil an hundred ⟨p. 278⟩times, and his days be prolonged, yet it shall not be well with the wicked, Eccl. 8. 12, 13. The greatest Judgment that can befall a man upon earth, is to prosper in any sinful way.

Watch and pray therefore, in the fear of God, against this dangerous Temptation. They are most guilty of this distemper, that were never afraid of it^m. Preserve a due tenderness in your Consciences, suffer not any sin to ly upon them unrepented. Endeavour to have daily a clearer sight of sin, and a deeper sense of the evil of it. Let the exemplary Judgments upon others, startle you. Know, that if you sleep in sin, your Preservation will be but a Reservation to some fearful issue. Remember that though a Sinner do evil an hundred ⟨p. 278⟩times, and his dayes be prolonged, yet it shall not be well with the wicked, Eccl. 8. 12, 13. The greatest Iudgment that can befall a man upon earth, is to prosper in any sinful way.

1. mNe pergas quaererè qui• cor durum sit, si non expavisti, tuum est. Bern.