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

even every sickness, and every plague, are denounced to the ungodly. And fully Eccl. 8. 12, 13. Tho a Sinner do Evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. But it shall not be well with the wicked, ⟨p. 36⟩neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God. Therefore you that would protract the time of your flourishing strength, learn to love and fear God, devote your selves to him, bestow your Hearts upon him, employ your time and strength to please and honour him: abide not in a State of ungodliness, rest not with a form of Godliness; but resolve upon that Real Holiness, which will produce a long and happy life in this World, and a longer and happier life in a better.

even every sickness, and every plague, are denounced to the ungodly. And fully Eccl. 8. 12, 13. Tho a Sinner do Evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. But it shall not be well with the wicked, ⟨p. 36⟩neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God. Therefore you that would protract the time of your flourishing strength, learn to love and fear God, devote your selves to him, bestow your Hearts upon him, imploy your time and strength to please and honour him: abide not in a State of ungodliness, rest not with a form of Godliness; but resolve upon that Real Holiness, which will produce a long and happy life in this World, and a longer and happier life in a better.

2. The Second Preservative against Old age, which indeed is contained in the former, is Temperance and Sobriety