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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.
6. That Gods promise is very full, for he hath promised and said, Thou shall come to thy grave in a full old age, and as a shock of corn cometh in his season, Job. 5. 26. yea, he hath promised that those that are planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the Courts of our God, they shall bring forth fruit in old Age, they shall be fat and flourishing, Psal. 92 13, 14.
7. That thus they shall not be afraid to dye, but shall say, with that good man dying, I have not so lived that I am afraid to dye, but I have so learned Christ that I am not afraid to dye.
8. Yea, and thus shall his old Age be a good old Age, and he so number his days (it is not said his years, nor his months, nor his weeks, out days, for his life is so short, that it is rather to be numbered by days then by years, or months, or weeks,) that he should apply his heart unto wisdom.
8. Yea, and thus shall his old Age be a good old Age, and he so number his dayes (it is not said his years, nor his moneths, nor his weeks, out dayes, for his life is so short, that it is rather to be numbred by dayes then by years, or moneths, or weeks,) that he should apply his heart unto wisdome.