There are two sorts of Aged People to be now treated with: There are some that are Converted unto God but late: They squandered away most of all their Youth, before they turned their feet unto the Testimonies of the Lord. It becomes these Persons now, as they Remember their God, so likewise to Remember their Sin: You make that your daily Prayer, in Psal. 25. 7. Remember not against me the sins of my youth. Be assured that God's dealing with you will in many regards be quite contrary to your dealing with your Sins. If you love them, he will hate you: If you slay them, he will save you: If you would have God ⟨p. 67⟩not Remember them, O then do you remember them your selves: 'Tis said in 1 Cor. 11. 3. If we would judge our selves, we should not be judged of the Lord. Well then, every one of you, like Pharaoh's Butler, now say, I remember my faults this day. O Remember all the lying, all the idleness; all the profuseness and profaneness of thy Youth. When Paul was a young Man, he had an hand in Abusing and Murdering an Eminent Minister of God, but he Remembered it with sorrow all his days: O! said he many Years after; When the Blood of Stephen was shed, I was consenting to it. Come now and sit down in the Dust this day before the Lord; come, and lament it, and bewail it, that you so long lay out from God, and that you so long did the things, for which the Wrath of God comes upon the Children of Disobedience. Be able to say, My Soul has this in remembrance, and is humbled in me. But perhaps there are some of you that never yet were Converted unto God at all: As they said in Jer. 8. 20. The Harvest is past, the Summer is ended, and we are not saved; thus may too many confess, Our youth is past, and we are not Renewed. Surely 'tis Time, 'tis high Time for you to Remember your, ⟨p. 68⟩God, yet at last, before you go hence and be no more: Let this encourage you, That it is not too late as yet for you so to do. The Lord said in Jer. 3. 1. Though thou hast played the Harlot with many Lovers, yet return unto me: Even so, though thou hast committed many sins; though thou hast been sinning many years; yet return unto me, saith the Lord. There was in this very Land, one that had lived a carnal, stupid, ignorant Person for about an hundred years, and yet became a serious Christian before he dyed. Unto the Oldest Enemy of God among us all, I this day proclaim the mercy of the Lord:
There are two sorts of Aged People to be now treated with: There are some that are Converted unto God but late: They squandered away most of all their Youth, before they turned their feet unto the Testimonies of the Lord. It becomes these Persons now, as they Remember their God, so likewise to Remember their Sin: You make that your daily Prayer, in Psal. 25. 7. Remember not against me the sins of my youth. Be assured that God's dealing with you will in many regards be quite contrary to your dealing with your Sins. If you love them, he will hate you: If you slay them, he will save you: If you would have God ⟨p. 67⟩not Remember them, O then do you remember them your selves: 'Tis said in 1 Cor. 11. 3. If we would judge our selves, we should not be judged of the Lord. Well then, every one of you, like Pharaoh's Butler, now say, I remember my faults this day. O Remember all the lying, all the idleness; all the profuseness and profaneness of thy Youth. When Paul was a young Man, he had an hand in Abusing and Murdering an Eminent Minister of God, but he Remembred it with sorrow all his dayes: O! said he many Years after; When the Blood of Stephen was shed, I was consenting to it. Come now and sit down in the Dust this day before the Lord; come, and lament it, and bewail it, that you so long lay out from God, and that you so long did the things, for which the Wrath of God comes upon the Children of Disobedience. Be able to say, My Soul has this in remembrance, and is humbled in me. But perhaps there are some of you that never yet were Converted unto God at all: As they said in Jer. 8. 20. The Harvest is past, the Summer is ended, and we are not saved; thus may too many confess, Our youth is past, and we are not Renewed. Surely 'tis Time, 'tis high Time for you to Remember your, ⟨p. 68⟩God, yet at last, before you go hence and be no more: Let this encourage you, That it is not too late as yet for you so to do. The Lord said in Jer. 3. 1. Though thou hast play'd the Harlot with many Lovers, yet return unto me: Even so, thô thou hast committed many sins; thô thou hast been sinning many years; yet return unto me, saith the Lord. There was in this very Land, one that had lived a carnal, stupid, ignorant Person for about an hundred years, and yet became a serious Christian before he dyed. Unto the Oldest Enemy of God among us all, I this day proclaim the mercy of the Lord:
