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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.
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.
5. Then are they also unapt to be taught, and are very unteachable, they think they know more then others, and that they are not now to learn, Eccles. 4. 13.
6. Then are they hard to be pleased, and as hard to please others.
7. Full of complaints they are of the present times praising the former days of old, which the old ⟨p. 4⟩men of those days did as much complain of, as they do of these.
7. Full of complaints they are of the present times praising the former dayes of old, which the old