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A12087	Vindiciæ senectutis, or, A plea for old-age which is senis cujusdam Cygnea cantio. And the severall points on parts of it, are laid downe at the end of the follovving introduction. By T.S. D.D.	Sheafe, Thomas, ca. 1559-1639.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1639 (1639)	STC 22391.8; ESTC S114120	74,342	246

or later overcome by them During the time of mans innocency the great Creator so temper'd the contrary qualities of the elements of which his body consisted that they were not as since at strife among themselves but when man had sinned that way might be made to the execution of the sentence of death God drew backe his hand and left them to their naturall worke in seeking their mutuall destruction And by that meanes now as one saith vivere mor●… est our living is a dying While we live and by living we come every day neerer and neerer to our dissolution This is now the weake estate of our earthly tabernacle to which the art of Physicke in diet and medicines may be as a prop to a decayed and tottering house but comes farre short of restoring it to the originall perfection in the creation Physick sayes Galen is an art of repairing not of building No this certainely requires the same hand which made man at the first and the way which God the Creator and recreator will take in it he hath plainely expressed in his word It is by demolishing in his time this decayed and daily decaying house and setting up a new The earthly house of this our weake Tabernacle must first be destroyed that we may have a building given of God not made with handes but eternall in the Heavens As the seed that is cast into the ground first dies and then is quickned so our bodies at the resurrection This corruptible shall then put on incorruption and this mortall immortality Perfect health man had but by his sinne he lost it Perfect health he shall recover but the way to it is death and the way to death is sicknesse and as the sting of death is sinne so the evill of sicknesse is sinne likewise and that not onely as the meriting cause but also as the thing to be prevented by it Would we alwaies live in health We know not our selves God that is better acquainted with our estate and condition sees that of all afflictions this of sicknesse is most beneficiall unto us and most necessary The reasons to note some of them may bee these The first to make us looke backe to see from whence we are fallen and why Another because other afflictions are not so direct premonitions of death which should be the meditation of our whole life A third for that this correction doth not onely minde us of our sinnes past and upbraid us with them that wee may repent but serves also for a curb or restraint to hold us in from rushing into the world of enormities and sinnes to which our corrupt and unbridled nature otherwise would carry us head-long for by sicknesse the flesh which rebels against the spirit is weakened and more easily observes that precept of not suffering sinne to reigne in our mortall bodies Fourthly health of body is an occasion of many evills especially when the soule is sicke or ill affected No where saies one can the corrupt heart dwell worse or more dangerously then in a healthy body Fiftly when we see a man in his bed of sicknesse how much doe wee finde him changed if there bee any sparke of grace in him from that hee was before Hee hates his former disorderly course and himselfe for it Hee resolves though hap'ly with great weakenesse and sometimes after recovery inconstancy yet he resolves or at least professes a resolution for amendment and he binds himselfe to God for it by many promises and vowes in health with most men it is farre otherwise Againe the want of health may be borne the more patiently both by aged and younger folke because health is a thing common with us to inferiour creatures not peculiar to man as Psal. 36. ●…6 Lord thou preservest man and beast From which place S. Austine observes that we should not bee proud of health and we may from the same ground that there is no cause of our being much dejected for the want of it Well then were it granted that old-age is followed with more diseases then the other this notwithstanding would be no disgrace to it a benefit rather as hath beene proved But by the concurrent judgement of Physitians it appeares to be otherwise For they tell us that old-men are not so subject to sicknesse as the younger and that the reasons of it are these One their temperance above others by which say they the most depraved and corrupt nature of man is preserved and held in a healthy constitution Another because they are sensible of the least causes of sicknesse and thereby become wary and suffer not the diseases to take root in them And the last is their cold and dry temper which frees them from hot fevers inflammations and corrupt humors Whence it is saith Plime that they are lesse subject to the pestilence Hereunto wee may adde the common Proverbe A Physitian or a foole A Physitian by experience and many observations or a foole for want of them Now we know none hath so much experience as the Old-man whose many yeares afford him opportunity and meanes to be to himselfe an Emperike a kinde of Physitian The carelesnesse of former ages have happily bred diseases in him and hee by his skill and knowledge gotten by experience practiseth the cure The other ages are as violent winds and stormes that by often beating upon this house of clay or as bad inhabitants that by their neglect bring it out of reparations and OLD-AGE is as the Carpenter to repaire it The IIII. Chapter Containing the next and last disgrace cast upon OLD-AGE and the answer THe last imputation is this that to the OLD-MAN death is at hand and knockes at the doore as it were ready to come in and ceaze upon him And here now we are fallen upon a meditation of Death and I rejoyce at the occasion imploring Gods helpe that I may bee profitably sensible of what I deliver touching this point and may bring it home to my selfe for my better preparation In it I will endeavour to prove first that to be neare to death is not a misery but a happinesse rather Secondly that were it an affliction as it is deemed to be the other ages are as liable to it as this And lastly that the former part of mans life ill order'd is one and not the least cause of Old-ages hasting to the grave Touching the first What is there in Death that may make it a misery to a good Old-man Is it that which David Psalm 6. and other where pleaded for the lengthening of his life In death there is no remembrance of thee c. And Hezekias Isaiah 38. The grave cannot confesse thee That indeed should bee a principall motive to the desire of life and the shunning of death The end of it should be not so much that wee may longer enjoy this world and the comforts of it as that we

generatio alterius the dying of the seed is the life of the corne that springs from it Thou foole saith th' Apostle that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die Thus we see there is still happinesse in death The grave may be likened to the Gold-smiths Forge in it our bodies are refined and polished by Gods Almighty hand and by the power of Christs Resurrection and they are made of corruptible incorruptible and of mortall immortall and so that comes to passe which we have Rom. 8. 28. That all things worke together for good to them that love God it is true of afflictions which are the fore-runners of death and true of death it selfe and therefore the Apostle tells us that whether it bee life or death things present or things to come all are ours and well saith Saint Bernard Bona mors quae vitam non aufert sed transfert in melius O happy death that deprives us not of life but changes this for a farre better Dies mortis saith Seneca quem tanquam extremum formidas aeterni natalis est How art thou deceived in thy thoughts of death the day of thy death which thou so much fearest as thy last day to thee is the Birth day of eternity and Euripides answerably vivere mori est mori autem vivere to live is to die and to die is to live viz. eternally But now another block lies in our way another Objection which must also bee answered How blessed by that may some man say which is a curse and punishment for sinne that which God hath armed against us as was said before for the execution of that doome In the day that thou eatest thou shalt die the death To this I say first that the Apostle answers it 1 Cor. 15. 54 55. the most hurtfull creatures if once they bee disarmed and weakned cannot hurt us much lesse when they are overcome and slaine for us and to our hand as we say so is death Christ hath taken away the sting of it and conquer'd it and all adverse power that might stop our passage to Heaven And as when Goliah was overcome by David this victory made all the people of Israel for whom hee fought Conquerours and freed them from the power of the enemie so our David having overcome and conquered death we are safe being all more then Conquerours by and in him Now the second point followes which I proposed for the answering of this last accusation that Old-age is a neere neighbour to death viz. that other ages are as liable to it as this and many times as neere It is observed by one that there are three messengers of death casuality sicknesse and Old-age Casualities and the unhappy accidents that doe befall men and shorten their lives are indeed many somewhere whole Cities have beene overthrowne by earthquakes others burnt up by lightnings some by fire whole regions swallowedup by the earths gaping for them many men and places destroyed by the inundations of the sea and many other casualities happen daily a haire drunke in milke a stone in a grape a small bone in a fish have beene meanes of choaking some have dyed with suddaine joy Warres and the Pestilence how many thousands doe they devoure a multitude of such accidents there are but no age is more free from these messengers then this we speake of and that for these reasons First because this is an age of the best temper and greatest moderation and circumspection whereby divers of those dangers are avoided Secondly because it is not so much in bodily action as the rest Thirdly for that it mooves lesse stirres lesse abroad giving it selfe to retirednesse Fourthly it is not prest to the warres where death compasses men about and is daily and hourely expected Besides it is free from quarrells and lesse subject to surfettings to breaking and disjoynting of limbs or to deadly wounds c. Touching the second messenger of death Bodily diseases they are in other ages moe more sharpe and more incurable every man will grant it If it be said that though these two messengers should passe by Old-men yet their age it selfe will stand ready every houre to arrest them I answer that neither is that so for the Schooleman tells us that OLD-AGE sometimes equals all the other in yeeres and durance and whereas of the rest there is a certaine set period and end of this there is none for no man knowes when an Old-man shall die and cease to be an Old-man Saint Ierome tells us that Nemotam fractis viribus decrepitae senectutis est quin non se putet unum adhuc annum esse victurum that there is not any in strength so decayed and in age so decrepit as not to thinke he shall live yet one yeere longer Further we know that the yongest hath no lease no certainty of the number of his daies and therefore must still be in expectation of death as well as the aged for it behooves him that hath no set day for his debt to be at all times solvendo ready for payment Socrates was wont to say that to Old-men death stands before them continually in their sight but to young men hee lurks behind that unawares he may come upon them as an enemy that lies in ambush The third part of my answer remaines which retorts the fault if it be one of Old-ages being so neere to death upon the true cause of it viz. mens intemperance and disorder in the former part of their life I will briefly passe through the particular foregoing ages In Infancy many times the milke in the nursing or food when it hath left the brest is unholsome whereby an ill foundation is laid for the bodily constitution And heere by the way I cannot but blame the indiscreet peremptorinesse of some who doubt not to make this a generall rule or Maxim that God never makes the wombe fruitfull and the brest barren and thereupon stick not to conclude that no woman may put forth her childe to nurse true not of nicenesse and to shunne the paines and trouble of it Yet it cannot be denied that there are many cases in which the mother not onely may refuse this office which in it selfe is most naturall I confesse and lies neerely upon her but is a cruell mother to her child to say nothing of her selfe if shee doe otherwise for what weaknesse and how many deseases may bee derived from a mother in some cases I say and of some constitutions to the child to its utter overthrow and undoing and besides it is not true that the mothers breasts are never dry nor that there can be no other thing that may justly excuse her refusing to be a nurse But I leave the digression having but occasionally and by the way fallen upon it And now further I say that often through want of attendance the poore infant falls into many

not the body page 131. Death opens heaven gates page 132. Death brings happinesse page 134. Death is suiting to a mans life p. 137. Death why unwelcome p 137. Death imbittered by an ill life p. 138. Death imbittered by love of this world p. 140 Death how abhorr●…d and how desired p 141 Death a pulling downe of a tabernacle p. 143 Death as the corruption of seed page 144. Deaths curse removed p. 146. Death of infants causes of it p. 142. Death causes of it in child-hood p. 154. Death causes of i●… in Man-age p 154. Diseases befall all p. 1●…0 Distemper of former ages makes Old-Age the neerer to death p. 151. Discontentednesse at ones estate page 7. Discomforts are no disparagement to Old-Age page●…7 ●…7 Drunkennesse and uncleanenesse seldome severed p 79. E Experience a good teacher page 24. Evill of former ages followes Old-Age page 155. F Fabius Maximus Augur 6●… yeares p 16. To order Families Old-Age the fittest p 42 Families Old-men worthy governours of them ●… 45. G Gadera a City in Spaine dedicated to Old-Age p 18●… Georgius Leontinus had nothing to accuse Old-Age p●… ●… Glory of man wherein it consisteth p. 11. Good the object of pleasure p. 59. The Kingdome of Grace brings joy p. 135. Grace by growth gets strength p. 175. The Grave as a Gold-smiths forge p. 145. Good things must be communicated p. 205. H Health dangerous p. 12●… Health common to beasts p. 1●… House how best built up p. 122. I Imployment Old-Age makes not unfit for it page 10. Greatest Imployments elder yeares best fitted for page 12. Infirmity what it is page 86. Infirmity of child hood page 99. Infirmity of young-men page 95. Infants infirmities page 86. Infants come into the world crying p. 89. Infants how first handled p. 90. Infants deatli causes of it p. 152. L Lawfull things in danger let go p. 77. Learning increaseth by age p 26. True Learning what it is p 40. Liberty abused by youth p. 96. An ill Life imbitters death p. 138. Life uncertaine p. 151. M. Man age when it begins p. 103. Man-age in evill irremoveable p 103. Man age aspires high p 104. Man age prone to wrong p 105. Causes of death in Man-age p. 154. Mans glory wherein it consisteth p 21. Massarissa went bare-head and bare-foot at 90 yeares age p. 16. Matter of Meditation p 187. Meditation on Gods mercies a sinners cordiall p 194. Meditation Old-age fittest for it p. 195. Middle-age must redeeme the time p. 204. Minds abilities the best p 19. Most good done by the Mind p. 23. Ornaments of the Mind p. 162. Ministers work a weighty task p. 34. Ministers compared to Shepheards Builders Husband-men Watch-men Stewards Embassadours p 3●… c. Monks of old p 190. Mothers care over children p. 94. N In what cases children may bee put out to Nurse p. 152. O Old-age what it is p 2. Old-age hath the best opportunities for wisdome p. 24. Old-ages defects most in the body p. 27. Old-age fittest for writing p. 40. Old-age fittest for ordering of Families p. 42 Spirituall pleasure most proper to Old-age p. 69. It is a glory to Old age that it takes off from pleasures p. 80. Old-age works joy in the want of pleasure p. 80 Old-age not to bee blamed with personall vices p. 109. Old-age hath experience p 124 172. Other ages as liable to death as Old-age p. 147. Every age hath a more certaine period then Old-age p 150. Distemper of former ages makes Old-age the neerer to death p 151. Evill of former ages followes Old-age p. 155 All priviledges meet in Old-age 162. Old-ages externall priviledges p. 164. Discomforts are no disparagements to Old-age p 167. Old-age an helpe to grace p. 169. Old-age hath best meanes for grace p. 170. The Old age of the World had great mysteries p 173. Old-age honourable p. 179. Great things done by Old-men p 13. Old age hath least disturbance p 194. Old age fittest for meditation p. 195. Old age most calls for repentance p. ●…09 Old-men must thinke of their former failings p. 208. Old-mens abilities in the graces of the mind p. 19. Old men of best use in peace p. 29. Old-men best Generalls in warre page 31. Old-men best counsellors for warre p. 32. Old men not so fit for the Pulpit as young page 37. Old men worthy Governors of families p 45 Old-men best furnished for writing p 41. Old-men fittest to cast up their accounts p 48 Old-men best apprehend Gods promises p. 49 Old mens motion to heaven the strongest p. ●…0 Old-mens care for others good p. 106. Old-men best use wealth p. 108. Old-men not covetous p. 110. The ground of Old-mens parsimony p. 111. Old-men warre p. 112. Old-men long for better times p. 112. Old-men why hard to please p. 113. Old-men praisers of former times p. 113. Old-men just reprovers p. 113. Old-men most think of their former failings page 208. Old men see how former yeares might have beene better imployed p. 203. Old-men must looke backe to their former passages p. 206. Old servant not cast of by God p. 49. Old servants respected by God p. 178. P Parents must well season children p. 198. In Peace old men of best use p. 29. Times of Peace fittest for Gods house p. 193 The old Patriarks advantage p. 175. Physick wherein usefull p. 118. Plato died with his pen in his hand at 81. yeares of age p. 16. Pleasure what it is p. 59. Pleasure the object of it is good p. 59. False Pleasure p. 60. Worldly Pleasures p 62. Worldly Pleasures how good p. 62. Pleasures are good only to the faithfull p 64 Pleasures corporall and spirituall how differenced p. 64 c. Pleasures spirituall most proper to Old-age page 69. Pleasure corporall want of it no great disadvantage p. 70. Pleasure corporall the vanity of it p. 70 c. Pleasures corporall dangerous p 74. Pleasures corporall can hardly be well used pag. 75. Pleasures make brutish p. 7●… Pleasures are dangerous guests p. 81 c. Pleasures bodily lost recompensed with spirituall joyes p. 83. Prayer excellencies of it p. 184. Preaching the chiefest Ministeriall function page 38. Preaching by pen p. 38. The Pen goes further then the voice p. 39. Promises of God best apprehended by old men p 43. Q Quiet acceptable to old age p. 56. R Retirednesse a priviledge p. 184. S Old Servants not cast off by God p 49. Old Servants respected by God p. 178. Sicknesse whence it came p. 115. Sicknesse by sin p. 119. Sicknesse the benefits of it p. 120. Sicknesse no disgrace p 122. Solitarinesse sweetnesse of it p. 191. Sophocles wrote Tragedies in his dotage page 16. Soules excellency p. 19. Spirituall Pleasures See Pleasures Bodily Strength dangerous p 99. In bodily Strength nor all nor the best actions p. 23. T Testimonies humane how to be used p. 2. Time commonly too much mispent p. 55. Time losse of it worse in younger than in elder yeares

24. o Eccles. 9. 10. p Col. 4. 5. Every age hath proper imploymēts God laies no more on any age then what its able to beare q Numb 8 25. r Senec. de brev vitae cap. 20. ●… Proper ●… 25. Time cōmonly too much mispent t Senec ad Lucil. Epist 1. u Senec de brev vitae c. 3. Quiet acceptable to old-age x Francisc. Petrar Losse of time vvorse in younger then in elder yeares What pleasure ●… Good is the object of pleasure False pleasures a Cit. 2. de finib Worldly pleasures How worldly pleasures are good b Psal 104 15. c Eccles. 3. ●… d ●…h v. 5. Pleasures are good onely to the faithfull ●… Tim 1. 4. f Psal. 32. 1●… g Isa 57. 21. Differēces be●…wixt corporall and spirituall pleasures 1 In measure ●… In pedigree Psal 4. 6. 3 In satisfaction 4 In season h Eccle. 1. Psa ●…2 5. k 1 Cor. 9. ult l Luk. 16. 5 In stablenesse n Pro. 15. 15. 6 In Purity Spirituall pleasures most proper to old age o 2 Cor. 5. 4. Want of corporall pleasure is no great disadvantage The vanity of corporall pleasure p Cic 2. de finib q Boet. lib. 3. de consolat r Cic de oratore s Senec Epist 28. t Idem Epist 51. u Ethic. lib. 7. c. 11. Corporall pleasures dangerous x Gal. 6. 14 y Adsanct Bapt. z Pro. 27 6. a Luk. 8. 14. b ●… Tim 3. 4. c Heb. 11. 15. Corporal pleasures can hardly be well u●… sed Afflictiōs to weane us from pleasures Lawfull things in danger let goe d 1 Cor. 6. 12. Drunkennes uncleannesse seldome severed In Tit. c. 1. Pleasures make brutish It is a glory to Old-age that it takes off from pleasure f Cic. deSe nect g S●…nec Epist 12. h Idem Epist 67. Old age works joy in the wāt of pleasures i 1 Cor. 7. 29 30. Pleasures are dangerous guests k Prov. 31. 30. l Job 31. m Prov. 25. 16. n Eccl. 15. 1. o Eccle. 12 Losse of bodily pleasures recompenced in spirituall joy Infirmity what it is Infants infirmities p In procem lib ●… nat hist. q Psal. 71. 6. Infants come into the world crying Infants how first handled r Eccl 7. 2 Infirmity of childehood s Reddere qui voces 〈◊〉 puer pe de certo sig rat humū Hora●… de Arte Poet The yoke of childrē Correctiō of childrē t Prov. 13. 34. u Prov. 22. 15. x Prov. 23 14. Mothers care over children ●… Pro. 23. 13. Infirmitie of young-men z Horst in Arte Poet a Tandem cust●…de re moto gaudet equis canibusque c. Ibid. Liberty a bused by youth b Cereus in vitium slecti Ibid. Youth ea s●…ly seduced Youth scornes counsell c Monitori●… asper Youth improvident and prodigall d Utiliu●… tardus provisor prodigus aeris Ibid. e Sublimis cupidusque Youth variable f ●…mata relinquere pernix Ib. Youth like a ship Bodily strength dāgerous Youth secure g De interi●…re dom●… cap. 46. h Greg past●…ral par 3. c. 13. Youth most op posite to Old-age i Ovid. Metamorph lib. 1. Youth hath most need of reformation Mans age when it begins Mans age in evill immoveable Man-age aspires high k Quaerit ●…pes a micitias inservit ●…onori Horat Ibid. Mans-age pro●…e to wrong l Dum vitant stul●…i vitia i●…ōtraria currunt Et a libi In vitium ducit culpae ●…uga ●…i caret arte Hora Old-me●… care for ●… ther 's go●… m Quaeri inve t is ●…ise abstinet timet ●… ubi supra n M●…nāder Old-men best use wealth Old-age not to bee blamed with personall vices o Psa. 113. p Cato major apud Ci●… de senectute Old-men not covetous The ground of Old-mens parsimōy q Dio. Cyn Old-men warie r Res omnes timide gelideque ministrat ubisupra s Arist. in Rhetor. Old-men long for better times t Avidusque futuri Why Old-men hard to please u Difficilis Ibid. Old-men praisers of former times x Laudator tēporis acti se puer●… Ibid. Old-men just reprovers y Censor castigatorque minorū Ibid. z Tum pietate gravē aut meriti●… fi forte virum quem cōspexere silent c. Uirg in Aeneid Sicknesse whence it came a Super Gen. ad lit b Euripides Physicke wherein usefull c Lib. de constitut artis medicae d 2 Cor. 5. 1 e 1 Cor. 15 36. Sicknesse by sinne Benefits of sicknes Health dangerous N●… quā pej u●… quā in sano cor pore aeger animue habitat Pet. lib. 1. dial 4. Health cō mon to beasts Sicknes no disgrace g Lib. 7. c. 50. Old-age hath experience Propinquity of death objected against Old age What makes death most grievous to good men Mēs rashness in speaking against death h Luk. 14. 31. Death wherein terrible Remedy against death i Heb. 2. 14 k 1 Cor. 15 l Col. 2. 14 m Ro. 8 35 n Heb. 2. 15. Death a blessing o Rev. 14. 13. Corruption the way to generation The body not destroyed by death p in Gen. Cap. 1. Hom. ●…5 Death opens Heaven gates q Cie lib. 5. Tuse quest ●… Epist. 84. r Sup Iob. Death brings happinesse s Psal. 16. ult The kingdome of grace brings ioy By death life t De gratia novi Test. Why death unwelcome u 1 Cor. 15. 31. x 2 Cor. 1. 9. y In Epist. ad Paulū z Sup. Mat 10. Death embittered by an ill life a De Civitate Dei b In Epist. ad Heliod Death embittered by love of this world How death abhorred and how desired Death a pulling downe of a Tabernacle Death as the corruption of seed The grave as a Goldsmiths forge c 1 Cor. 3. 22. d In Cantio Serm. 51. Deaths curse removed Other ages as liable to death as Old-age e Hugo de Claustro Casualties befall all ages Deseases befall all Every age hath a more certaine period then Old-Age f Tho. 4 Sent. distinct 43. artic 3. g In epist. quadam No certainty of life Distemper of former agesmakes Old-Age the nearer to death Causes of infants death In what cases children may be put out to nurse Causes of death in childhood Causes of death in man-age Evill of former ages follow Old-Age h Ita ●…st non accepimus bre vem vitā sed secimus non exiguum tempus habemus sed mulium perdimus necinoses ejus sed prodigi sumus De brevitate vitae i Ioseph de bello Iud●…ico lib. 2 cap. 7. k Iob. 5. 26. l Psal. ●… 5. ●…lt m Gen. 15 15. n Gen 35. 29 o Gen 47. ●…8 p Psal. 3●… ●…lt q Psal. 71. 18. r Gen. 27. 33. s Prov 3. 16. t I●… Hexam lib. 1. All priviledges meet in Old-Age Ornamēts of mind 1 Knowledge ●… Wisedome 3 Prudence ●… Courage 5 Patience 6 Constancy a Heb 5. ●…lt Externall priviledges of Old-Age Resemblances betwixt the seasons of the yeare and ages of man Fit S●…mi li●…s Discomforts are no disparagements to Old-Age Old-Age an helpe to grace Fit time and place must bee for every thing Old-Age hath best meanes for grace Old Age hath experience b I●…a Seges demil vot●… respondet avari Agricolae bis quae solem bis frigora sensit Virg in Georg c Ier. 4 4. The Old-Age of the world had greatest mysteries d Gal. 4. The Apostles most excellent in their elder yeares The old Patriarks advantage Grace by growth gets strength e 1 Pet. 1. f 1 Cor. 13 11. g Mat. 13. 31. Old servants respected by God Old-Age honourable h Eccl. 7. 3 i Pro. 22. 1 k Prov. 16. 31. l Phocid Retirednesse a priviledge Excellencies of prayer Contemplation commended m Tho. 22. quest 180. artic 3. n Plato o Arist. moral lib. 10. Matter of meditation p Esa. 38. 3. Contemplation sweet Monkes of old Sweetnes of Solitatinesse q Tho. 20. 21. quest 188. artic 8. r Tho ●… 2 quest 172 artic 1. Contemplation an Old-mans joy Times of peace fit test for Gods house Old-Age hath least disturbance s Arist. Ethic. lib. ●…0 cap 7. Meditation on Gods mercies is a sinners cordiall Old-age fittest for meditation Children happy if well seasoned t 2 Tim. 3 15. u 1 Pet. 2. x Pro. ●…1 ●… Parents must well season children Youth must pluck out weeds growne in childhood Youth needs great circumspection y Ambros de viduis lib. 1. Hieron ad Nepot Carelesse young-mē worse then beasts a Terent. in Adelph Care in youth benefits future ages Old men see how former yeares might have been better imployed Youths fault to scorne Old-Age Youth must hearken to Old-men b In Epist. ad August c Lib. de ordine vitae Young men must be conversant with Old-men Middle-age must redeeme the time Good things must be communicated Old-men must look back to their former passages Old men must think of their former failings d Heb. 12. 13. e 2 Cor 6. 2. f Luk. 19. 42. Old-Age most calls for repentance