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

The folly and ungroundedness of this Imagination, is obvious. For what should induce one that is already dying, to think that he shall not very quickly die out and out? Alas! Death hath laid its cold hand already upon us^s. Our Eyes, our Ears, our Hands, our Legs, our Lungs, our very Vitals are death-struck already. Death puts in for a share in every day we spend^t Have we taken any Lease of our lives, for a determinate time? Can we produce any Reason, any one Reason to prove that we should live a year, or a week longer? I am sure the provoking Sins, which are in our Souls, and the ⟨p. 285⟩unruly Humours which are in our Bodies, render our speedy death more likely, than a longer life: besides the rage of Satan against us, and the many Casualties incident to us. Now when a man expects any thing, and hath no reason for such his expectation, it is lamentably ridiculous.

The folly and ungroundedness of this Imagination, is obvious. For what should induce one that is already dying, to think that he shall not very quickly dy out and out? Alas! Death hath laid its cold hand already upon us^s. Our Eyes, our Ears, our Hands, our Legs, our Lungs, our very Vitals are death-struck already. Death puts in for a share in every day we spend^t Have we taken any Lease of our lives, for a determinate time? Can we produce any Reason, any one Reason to prove that we should live a year, or a week longer? I am sure the provoking Sins, which are in our Souls, and the ⟨p. 285⟩unruly Humours which are in our Bodies, render our speedy death more likely, than a longer life: besides the rage of Satan against us, and the many Casualties incident to us. Now when a man expects any thing, and hath no reason for such his expectation, it is lamentably ridiculous.

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