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A word to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College…
A word to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.
Boston: printed by John Foster for J.G. i.e, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Then men are apt to be too drowsy and remiss in the things of God.
1. Then men are apt to be too drowsie and remiss in the things of God.
2. Then are they apt to be too covetous and tenacious for the things of this world fugientem sequimur Mundum: as wantonness is the young mans vice so covetousness is the old mans sin.
3. Then are they apt to be too timorous & fearful, we read but of one man that came to Christ by night out of fear, and he was a rich and old man, Nicodemus.
4. Then are they apt to be too touchy; Peevish, angry, and froward, for old age is a continued sickness, and in sickness men are apt to be angry.