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

And thus we are at length arrived at the end of the Aged persons Work, which was the Seventh and Last thing to be treated of in this Subject.

The Practice of these things now only remains: That we study to correct the Causes, avoid the Sins, obtain the Graces, sustain the Inconveniences, improve the Privileges, and dispatch the Work described before us. Wherein we must earnestly implore the gracious Assistance of God, who worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure, and who will not fail us therein, unless we be wanting to our selves.

The Practice of these things now only remains: That we study to correct the Causes, avoid the Sins, obtain the Graces, sustain the Inconveniences, improve the Priviledges, and dispatch the Work described before us. Wherein we must earnestly implore the gracious Assistance of God, who worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure, and who will not fail us therein, unless we be wanting to our selves.

And O that all Younger people would learn Knowledge, Temperance, and Industry ^zin their youth, which will be the only means to attain to an Healthy, Wealthy, and Holy Old-age.

1. zThere is scarce any old man, but then sees how he might formerly have improved his talents better. Dr. Sheaf his Vind. of Old-age.