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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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righteousness and our strength Temptations or sins blown out by reason or resolution will easily light again but quenched in the blood of Christ and they light no more When the Israelites was stung with the fiery Serpents he did not stand looking on his swoln arm or leg but on the brazen Serpnt and so was cured Christ lift upon the Cross is our brazen Serpent and he hath said look unto me O all ye ends of the Earth and be saved 2 Then by way of consideration think and think much with your selves what an evil thing it is to sin when a man is ready to dye Thus you leave not your sin but your sin you 3. Be sure that you do not chew the Cud of your former sins by musing on them with delight for thereby you justfie your former practice but rather mourn over them for the way to be kept from future sins is to mourn for former and the way to be kept from sins of old Age is to mourn for the sins of our youth 4. But above all things under your study of Christ crucified be sure that you strengthen your love to God in Christ for if the boughs of the Tree be weak the way to strengthen them is not to carry up dung to the boughs but to lay the dung to the root for by strengthening the Root you strengthen the branches Now the Root of all our mortification is love for love is the cause of hatred Ye that love the Lord hate evil Love to God eats out our love to sin as the fear of God eats out our fear of men and your love to God is strengthened by the sight of his love to you For love is the cause of love the more we see Gods love to us the more we love him and do hate our sins Would you therefore take up your sinful weeds by the roots Then strengthen your love and this shall be a Staff in your hand to strengthen and bear you up under all your infirmities both natural and moral CHAP. III. The OLD MANS GVIDE BVt there is yet one thing remaining and incumbent on the Aged and that is to plant the positive grace and virtue which doth best suit with his foyland condition Quest What are those good things therefore that Old men epecially are to do in their old Age. Answ 1. They are full of experience and therefore should be full of Faith For though Gods word only be the ground of our Faith yet experience is a great help to Faith Now there is a Faith of relyance and a Faith of assurance Faith of relyance justifies Faith of assurance comforts Old men therefore are to exercise the Faith of relyance relying upon Christs righteousness renouncing their own and to exercise the Faith of assurance For it is ill dying with a doubting Soul As Zeal is the young mans virtue so Faith is the old mans grace 2. Then it is their work and duty to renew their repentance for they ar● shortly to appear before the Lord and to give an accoun● of all that they have done in the flesh will they appear before him in their filthy rags Now though we are only washed from our sins by the blood of Christ unto Justification yet we are washed from our filth by the hand of r●pentance unto sanctification For as God promised to wash us with clean water so he commands us to wash our selves Isai 1. And if a man will not wash and repent at last when will he repent When the leaves are off the trees we see the birds neasts in the Trees and bushes Now in our old age our leaves are off then therefore we may see those neasts of sin and lusts in our hearts and lives which we saw not before and so be sensible and repent of them 3. Then are they also to be much in reading the Scripture M●ditation and Prayer for by this reading they shall gain knowledge by meditation upon their reading they shall add affection to their knowledge and by Prayer they shall add devotion unto their affection 4. And because they are ready to weigh Anker and to set sail for the other World it will be good for them to observe what is the proper work of this World and to be much therein For everything is beautiful in the time thereof Now is a time for Believing Heaven is no time for Faith for in Heaven we live by sight Now is a time for repentance in Heaven there is no repentance for there is no sorrow Now is a time for Patience in Heaven there is no Patience under Affliction for there is no Affliction Now is a time of hearing the Word preached and for Sacraments and Ordinances there is no preaching Sacraments and Ordinances in Heaven Now is a time to relieve the Poor in Heaven there is no room for such charity It is that Country where no beggar lyes at your door Now is a time to observe our Relations in Heaven there are no such Relations for they neither marry nor are given in Marriage bu● are as the Angels Now therefore what ever is in the power of your hand to do do it with all your might for in the grave there is no work nor in Heaven there is none of this work whether you are going This therefore that is to be done here and cannot be done there is now to be done especially 5. Then it is the old mans work and duty to live much in a little time to be more exact and strict in his life then ever for the nearer the stone comes to the Center the faster it moves the more wisdome any man hath the more exactly he works Wisdome and exactness go together See that you walk exactly not as fools but as wise sayes the Apostle Now gray hairs should be found in the way of wisdom and the more frequently a man doth work the more exactly he may do the same Now those that are ancient have or should have been frequent in holy duties they therefore of all men are to live walk most exactly Thus it shall not be said of them as Seneca says of one he did not live long but he was long 6. Then are they to knock off from the World and to use the World as if they used it not for the fashion of this World passeth away the time is short therefore their moderation should be known unto all men for the Lord is at hand If a tooth be to he drawn and the gum be cut the tooth doth come out with ease but if it be fast set in the gum and not first loosned from the gum it comes out with much difficulty and what is the reason that many dye with such difficulty but because they are so fast set in their worldly gums they are not loosned from their relations Good therefore it is for old men who are upon the brink of death to cut their gum and to loosen themselves from this world and all