A word to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College…

Comforts against the natural infirmities of old age are very many.

COmforts against the natural infirmities of old age are very many.

1. Christ himself did bear them, & still as our high ⟨p. 5⟩Priest doth sympathize with us under them, such did he single out for his care & cure, when he was here on Earth, Joh. 5, there were many that lay by the Pool of Bethesda, among the rest there was one that had lien sick and diseased 38 years. A young man therefore he was not, he would have stepped into the Pool, but others stepped in before him, and he had no man to help him in. A poor neglected man he was, whom others minded not. Yet this was the man that Christ came to cure, whom Christ minded and sought out, and cured, what then, though you be a poor, old, neglected person, that have lien long under your infirmities, yet Christ hath a cure for you, and what though others regard you not, and mind you not, Christ hath a cure for you. The blind men cried, and their cries put Christ to a stand for mercy, Math. 20. 31, 32.

1. Christ himself did bear them, & still as our high ⟨p. 5⟩Priest doth sympathize with us under them, such did he single out for his care & cure, when he was here on Earth, Joh. 5, there were many that lay by the Pool of Bethesday, among the rest there was one that had lien sick and diseased 38 years. A young man therefore he was not, he would have stept into the Pool, but others stept in before him, and he had no man to help him in. A poor neglected man he was, whom others minded not. Yet this was the man that Christ came to cure, whom Christ minded and sought out, and cured, what then, though you be a poor, old, neglected person, that have lien long under your infirmities, yet Christ hath a cure for you, and what though others regard you not, and mind you not, Christ hath a cure for you. The blind men cryed, and their cryes put Christ to a stand for mercy,