Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Consider, first, You cannot be far from the end of your days in this evil world. You may sadly look backward on the few days that have already passed, and as it were, stolen, from you; and you may then look forward, assuring of your selves, I have not near so many years to Live, as those that have already gone from me like a tale that is told; it was but yesterday that I came into the world, and now before to morrow, I shall be gone out again. It was the Emphatical Expression of the Apostle, in I Cor. 7. 29. this I say, Brethren, the time is short, […] the Greek word carries it, the time is Fur••• •. d. you are like Mariners, just ready to […] shore. Even so, this I say, Fathers, the Sail of […] is just furling with you; you are just putting into the harbour, where you shall step a shore on the […] of a long Eternity. An old Grecian walking once very slowly, said unto a Stander by, After this fashion I am stepping into the Grave; and another old Grecian that felt his Ankles failing him, complained, that death had bitten him by the Legs. You cannot stir many steps, without many such admonitions of the Mortality, which you are near unto. It can't be long, before you pass into your Eternal State; the vital Ty between your Spirits and your Bodies, will not much longer hold together; there are but a few Sands now left in the bottom of your Glass, and your Light is within one Inch of going out. You may say like Father Isaac, in Gen. 27. 1. Behold, now I am old, and I know not the day of my death; but you may also ⟨p. 27⟩say, since I am old, I do know that my Death cannot be many days off. It was the Speech of as good an old man, as ever lived, in Josh. 23 2, 4. I am old and stricken in Age; behold this day I am going the way of all the Earth. If you are old, I am sure you are going. Young men may Die, but old men must; and I am to tell you about the day of your Death, as the Prophet speaks about the Day of the Lord, It is near, it is near, and it •asteneth greatly.

Consider, first, You cannot be far from the end of your days in this evil world. You may sadly look backward on the few days that have already passed, and as it were, stolen, from you; and you may then look forward, assuring of your selves, I have not near so many years to Live, as those that have already gone from me like a tale that is told; it was but yesterday that I came into the world, and now before to morrow, I shall be gone out again. It was the Emphatical Expession of the Apostle, in