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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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never so many and great yet you have a peculiar honour that is twisted with your infirmity for it is called the Crown of old age In times of the old Testament they were to rise up and to bow before the Ancient yea it is our duty to honour them for this honour is joyned and commanded with the fear of God Lev. 19. 32. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old Man and fear thy God saith the Lord. The fear of God and honouring the old Man is commanded with the same breath linked together in the same sentence 3. Though you be very aged yet you may be very good was not Eli very good Yet very aged was not David very good yet he was very old when he said Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace was not Anna very good Yet she was very aged who doth not know what a good man Paul was Yet saith he Paul the aged good John was aged John Possibly then you may be very good though you be very aged labouring under much infirmity 4. And though your flesh be weak yet the Spirit may be willing the flesh indeed is weak said Christ when his Disciples slept through natural infirmity for it was late at night and they were full of grief but the Spirit is willing said he also and where the Spirit is willing he will pass by the weakness of the flesh and accept the willingness of the Spirit 5. These infirmities of old age are such as are not the fruit of our own sin the more any infirmity is caused by sin the more affiictive it is for sin is the sting of death I confess indeed they may be sometimes for the sins of youth do sometimes bite sore in age I eat so much of the forbidden fruit said a good man when I was young that God was fain to give much wormseed to kill the worm But the infirmities of old age are generally the decays of nature not of grace 6. They are good warnings of our change approaching and by them we dye daily that at last we may dye graciously and comfortably 7. And who are those that God doth reveal himself unto but to his old friends those he will acquaint with his secrets make known his mind unto Job 12. 12. with the Ancient is wisdome and in length of dayes understanding 8. And though your legs be weak yet they may be strong enough to carry you to Heaven that better Country wich you are now going to and are very near indeed your own present Country is a good Country but the Country you are now going to is a better Country Heb. 11. 6. 1. Better in regard of buildings whose builder and maker is God Heb. 11. 10. 2. Better in regard of Inhabitants where no unclean thing doth enter Rev. 3. Better in regard of quietness and freedome from trouble where all tears shall not only be wiped from our cheeks but out of our eyes as the Greek word bears it Rev. 7. insomuch as the eye shall never breed a tear again nor be the womb of tears 4. Better in regard of riches where you shall have an inheritance incorruptible undefiled that fadeth not away 5. Better in regard of pleasure for saith the Psalmist at thy right hand there are rivers of pleasures and that for evermore 6. Better in regard of largeness for if the whole Earth be but as a pins head in comparison of the Heavens then surely there is room enough in Heaven for every one to enjoy a greater Kingdome then all England doth amount unto 7. Better in regard of self subsistence here one Country doth depend on another but Heaven is that Country alone which doth depend upon no other Country 8. Better in regard of our freedome from needs and necessities It was Augustines Prayer Deliver me O Lord from my necessities It is a great mercy now to have bread to eat when we want it but it is a greater mercy to have no need of it A great mercy it is to have a good bed to lye on and so to sleep quietly but it is a greater mercy to have no need of bed or sleep This is the state of that Heavenly Country where you have not these blessings but where you have no need of them 9. Better also it is in regard of continuance where every mercy and blessing grows upon the stalk of Eternity and if it be a good thing to have a Lease of a good house and Land for one hundred years what a blessed thing then is it to have a glorious Mansion and Inheritance lying in the Fields of Eternity When you come to a great Palace and see fair Barns and Stables and out-houses you say then if the out-rooms and Stables be so costly and sumptuous how costly and glorious is this Palace within why lift up your eyes and behold that spangled Cannopy of the Heavens that is over your head Are not the Sun and Moon and Stars glorious Yet these are but the out-houses of Heaven and if these out houses be so glorions how glorious is the Palace within Yet this is that Country that better Country that you are going and drawing nigh unto and your passage thither is very short for no sooner do ye step out of this World but if godly gracious and in Christ you step immediately into that Country there is no sleeping of the Soul after death some have dreamed of such a sleep but Solomon tells us that the body upon death goes to the dust the Spirit unto him that gave it Ecclesiastes Christ said to the Thief this day shalt thou be with me in Paradice and the Apostle Paul tells us that Paradice and the third Heaven are one and the same thing 2 Cor. 12. Yea saith paul I am in a straight betwixt two not well knowing whether I should desire to dye for mine own injoyment or to live for the Service of the Churches Phil. 1. 22 23 24. whereas if the Soul did sleep in the Grave with the body he needed not to have been in that strait I desire said he to be disiolved and to be with Christ If with Christ presently How can the Soul sleep with the body in the dust But we know faith he 2 Cor. 5. 1. That if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens What then though your turn house now be ready to fire into a F●aver with every spark of distemper is there not enough in that house above to pay for all surely there is Why then should ye not lift up your heads ye old men and be of good comfort under all your natural in firmityes 2. And as for your moral infirmityes if you would strengthen your self against them and root out these weeds there 1. Be sure that you study and think much on Christ crucified who alone is our