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A29380 A vvord to the aged. By Mr. Will. Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and late preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. I commend this to be reprinted as a profitable and serious discourse. James Allen. Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. 1679 (1679) Wing B4475; ESTC R214754 12,516 21

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their Relations 7. Then let the old man take heed of all those evils that may and will stayn the glory of his old Age. All sins do leave a blot and stain behind them but youthful sins do especially stain old age For the sin is the greater as it is more contrary to the sinner It is an evil thing for any man to be unjust but worst for a Judge to be so because there is a special repugnancy betwixt the sin the sinner now there is a special repugnancy betwixt old men and youthful sins Give me a young man indued with an old mans virtue Wisdome Give me an old man indued with a young mans grace Zeal But ● young man vitiated with an old mans sin Covetousness or an old man defiled with a young mans sin Wantonn●ss are an abomination both to God and man and are ●ained d●eply and greatly A certain Lacedemonian being asked Why he suffered his Beard to grow so long To the end said he that looking on my white hairs I may be put in mind not to do any ●●t ●nbeseeming my hoary whiteness 8. Then it is their duty also to prepar● for death their great change and dissolution it was the complaint of Caesar Borgius When I lived I provided for every thing but death now I am ready to dye I am not provided to dye Such providers in the world there are very many but shall I provide for a Journey and not for this great Journey This is every mans work but the old mans especially For though the young mans Candle may go out the old mans will and shall Quest But what should the old man do that he may be fit to dye Resp God will give dying grace upon dying ground yet 1. He must be sure to do the work of this present day the only way to be fit for the work of the Morrow is to do the work of the present day 2. Then let him examine himself and make his reckonings even with God that when he comes to dye he may have nothing to do but to dye 3. Then let him resign and give up himself and will to God afresh Thus Christ did as soon as he drew nigh to death If it be possible said he let this cup pass yet not my will but thy will be done which he did again and again at his first approach unto death and this he did in his last words Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit 4. Let him long after Heaven and not be afraid to dye for if he be in Christ death it self is his All things are yours saith the Apostle life and death for ye are Christs and who is afraid of his own The Child is not afraid of the great Mastiff but puts his hand into the Dogs mouth and if you ask him why so For he is our own Dog saith the Child Now if a man be in Christ this great Mastiff Death is his own and therefore why would he be afraid thereof Yea why should he not be willing to dye was Eliah unwilling to go into the fiery Chariot Is the Child unwilling to ride home because it is a trotting horse that he must ride upon No what then though it be an hard and a sore sickness that you must ride on yet if it carry you home to your Father why should you be unwilling to dye Now the only way to be willing to die is to get assurance of our interest in Christ and of our own Salvation For what is the reason that men are unwilling to dye but because they cannot tell where they shall land after death True sayes one I am lanching forth into the Ocean of Eternity but on what shore I shall land God knows O that I might live one year more one moneth more yea one hour more till I had assurance of Salvation And when that comes then the soul having thereb● clasped about gotten Christ into his arms cryes out and says Lord now let test thou thy Servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation 5. Then also let him set his house in order make his Will and leave his Legacies to his Children Friends and Posterity Shall Achitophel when he hanged himself set his house in order before he dyed and shall not an ancient Christian set his house and heart in order make his Will and leave his Legacies unto his Friends and Posterity GHAP. IV. The OLD MANS Will and Legacies Qvest But what good thing should the old man leave or give unto his posterity by his last Will Reas 1. Why first he must be sure to give his Soul unto God while he lives for if a man gives his Soul to the world and devil while he lives what right hath he to give it unto God when he dyes If I give away an house or Land while I live can I justly give it to another when I dye and if I give away my Soul to sin world or devil while I live how can I justly give it unto God when I dye it being a Maxime in the common Law that Vendens candem rem duobus falsarius est 2. Then let him leave a good example unto his posterity a good Example is a great Legacy thus a man speaks when he is dead as Abel doth Heb. 11. 3. And if he would leave some good thing unto his posterity then let him leave his experiences an old man is or should be rich in experience an ancient Christian is or should be an experimental Christian when therefore he comes to dye it is his work and duty to leave those experiences unto his Posterity 4. Yea then let him leave some good exhortations and admonitions with and upon his Posterity saying Come O my Son or Daughter or Friend I am now going the way of all flesh when I am gone 1. Be sure that you fear the Lord and keep his Commandments for if you keep Gods Commaddments you shall have the comfort of his promises 2. Be sure also O my Son that you give your first and best unto God for God is the first and best of Beings and if you honour the Lord with your substance and with the first fruits of all your encrease then shall your Barns be filled with plenty and your presses shall burst forth with new Wine Prov. 3. 10. And why should you not give your first time and best of your All unto God who hath given his best and only Son unto you If you serve God while you are young God will bless you when you are old and if you come unto him when you are young you may build on it that he will not forsake you when you are old Thus David argued Psal 71. 18. For sake me not O God now I am old and gray-headed Why ver 17. thou hast taught me from my youth ver 5. for thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth God is engaged it seems by this argumentation to