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The Old mans complaint as followeth, 1680.
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Farthing, William, b. 1621.
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THE Old Mans Complaint as Followeth 1680. MY Prime is past my Strength decay My Youth is spent my Head grows gray My Eyes are dim and waxeth Old My Blood is dry my Body cold My Ears are dull my Joynts are weak My Teeth are gone I scarce can speak My Knees are lame I cannot go All 's out of Frame from top to toe My Sins are many which cause me weep And sigh and sob when I should sleep My Glass near run I cannot stay From hence to Grave I must away But where my Soul shall placed be Alas that is Unknown to me A Faithful Friend I hope to find To Comfort my Distressed mind A Friendly Admonition POOR Aged Man what cause thee cry Job Chap. 7. Verse 1. Revel Ch. 6. v. 15 16 17. Dost thou not know that all must Dye The Monarch Might and Princely Peer Have we a biding City here The Royal Blood and Noble Race Must all in time to Death give place The Prelates Wise and Lawyers Sage Must silent be when Death 's o' th Stage Remember that thou art but Clay Job Chap. 10. ver 3 9. Joel Chap. 2. ver 13. Gen. Chap. 7. v. 15 16 17. And when Death comes thou must away Therefore Repent while thou hast space For after Death no hope of Grace JEHOVAH High whose Words are Just Created Man of Earthy Dust And placed him in EDEN fair That goodly Garden to Repair Wherein was many a Fruitful Tree Gen. Chap. 3. ver 6. Job Chap. 14. ver 12. Heb. Chap. 9. ver 27. Heb. Chap. 8. ver 12. But one Forbidden that Tasted he For which Contempt GOD did Decree That into Dust Man turn'd should be Whose Corps within the Earth should stay Until the Latter Judgement-Day And then likewise if Just thou be Returns to Him that gave it thee Do not therefore Delight in Sin Condemn'd are those that Dye therein Our Saviour CHRIST doth plainly say 1 Cor. Ch. 15. ver 32. Rev. Ch. 20. ver 13. 2 Cor. Ch. 5. ver 10. That he will have a Comming-Day With Angels bright whose Trump shall sound And Raise all Dead wheresoever found And then Account all Men must give How Well or Ill they here did Live Yet though thy Sins in Number be As Drops of Rain or Sands i' th Sea Or as the Starrs that shines i' th Ayr Do not with Cursed Cain Despair Heb. Chap. 9. ver 14. Heb. Ch. 10. ver 17. For CHRIST hath Mercy left in store For Thee and Me and Thousands more In Love except of my Good Will Whose good desire exceeds my skill And if my Name you do not know In Fifteen Letters I will it show With Fifteen Short PRAYERS as Followeth WILLIAM FARTHING WHat shall I render unto the Lord for all his mercies from time to time bestowed upon me I will confess my sins as did holy David and I will weep for them as did the Prophet Jeremy and I will Fast as did the Prophet Joel and I will Repent as did the Ninevites and I will wait with Patience as did Holy Job till the appointed time which the Lord hath set for my Change IT is the Lord himself whose Word never failed and whose compassion have no end It is he that by his wonderful Providence even when we were at the Pits brink brought to light that most horrid Plot that the bloody-minded Papists had brought upon this Kingdom this last Year for the which I bless and praise his Holy Name Amen LOrd preserve my gracious King Charles with all the loyal and religious hearts that stand up to defend the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Lord I beseech thee to bring to light all such Plots as ever shall be plotted or imagined against them or this Nation and that the Gospel may by my Royal Soveraign be maintained unto his lifes end Amen LAy to thy helping hand O Lord and strengthen my weak Condition and pour the Oyl of thy grace into my wounded Conscience that I may ever walk in the light of thy Gospel so that at last I may receive comfort for my poor soul Amen I Am O Lord Created by thy goodness after thy own Image I beseech thee destroy not the work of thy own hands but shew mercy unto me and grant me thy gracious Pardon for all my sins for Christ his Sake my alone Saviour and Redeemer Amen ADmit me O most merciful Father to thy gracious favour for many are the dangers of this life and I have none to defend me but thee Heaven is thine and the Earth is thine keep me on Earth as one of thine and good Lord in thy good time bring me to Heaven to rest with thee for Christ his sake Amen MOst gracious God I have grievously sinned what shall I do O thou preserver of Men O Lord I confess nothing can be hid from thy presence therefore I renounsing all merit in my self do beg thy Gracious Pardon through the merits of Jesus Christ by whom I was Redeemed and it is he that hath made satisfaction for my sins FOrget me not O Lord now I am Gray-headed but Increase that little Grain of my weak and feeble Faith and Direct it to the true Object that is the merits of Jesus Christ and make me strong therein that when I shall leave this Body to the Grave I may be partaker of a joyful resurrection in and by the merits of Jesus Christ my Redeemer ARm me O Lord I beseech thee with the Spiritual Shield of Faith against all temptations and Establish my hope and good Lord keep me from Despair so shall I be able to resist the power of Sathan and shall be comforted in thy mercies through Jesus Christ REmember thy promise O Lord which thou hast made unto Mankind that if he will repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart as did the Prophet Ezekiel thou wilt have mercy therefore O Lord I beseech thee again and again to have mercy on me who with bended knees and unfeigned tears do beg thy gracious Pardon for Christ his sake Amen THough I have delighted in my sins which are more in number than the hairs upon my head or the Sands on the Sea-shore Lord I beseech thee let thy Holy Spirit prepare me to a true and hearty sorrow for them and with thy most precious Blood wash away all my sinful spots And this I beg for Christ his sake my onely Saviour and Redeemer HEar and accept of these my weak and humble petitions O Lord and for thy mercy sake bow down thine ear and hear me that is become a Worm and no Man and I beseech thee not to disdain these my requests but except me into thy favour Amen IEsus thou the onely beloved Son of God and Saviour of the whole World who art the life of the Living and the death of Death and therefore both in Life and Death advantage which sitteth at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for all sorrowful and penitent sinners to whom with the Father Son and Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory now and for evermore Amen NOw will I draw my Name to a conclusion and once more give thanks unto the Lord for all his abundant mercies in such a wonderful manner from time to time bestowed upon me which am by reason of my wicked life unworthy the least of all his mercies but it is his goodness that I had not been cut off by Death many years agone GReat and Wonderful hath thy mercies been shew'd toward me and thy Compassions have no end O Lord we have heard with our Ears and our Fathers hath declared unto us how thou didst of thy Wonderful Power long since overthrow that Invincible Armado which was intended against our most Gracious Queen ELIZABETH in the Year 1588. And likewise for the Delivery of our Dread Soveraign King JAMES and the States of Parliament from that most Horrid Plot and Bloody Massacre that the Papist had almost brought to pass the Gun-powder-Treason in the Year 1605. And now Lord for us the Father to the Children and the Old to the Young shall Report how thou of thy great Mercy and a most wonderful Providence of thine diddest also Preserve my most Soveraign and Gracious Lord King CHARLES from that Secret and close-Contrived Plot that the Bloody-minded Papist had almost brought to pass against King and Nation in the last Year 1678. For which thy mercies O Lord we Bless and Magnifie thy Great and Holy Name beseeching thee to continue still thy Helping Hand to this Kingdom and that we may the Remainder of our time Live in thy Fear Dye in thy Favour Rest in thy Peace Rise in thy Power Remain in thy Glory for ever and ever Amen The place of my Birth was at St. Johns in the parts of Marshland in the County of Norfolk upon the One and Twentieth Day of June in the Year of our Lord 1621. FINIS Printed by T. H. for J. Clarke at the Bible and Harp in West-smith-field 1680.