Old Men, their Dutie
The sinner being a hundred yeares old shall be accursed Is. 65. 20. For though the expositi∣ons of the former part of the verse be vari∣ous: yet these words are generally expoun∣ded in this sense.
Their Due.
Such as doe not honour them, may justly feare God's anger: because it is said, Thou shalt rise up before the hoarie head, and honour the face of the old man; and feare thy God: I am the Lord, Lev: 19. 32. As if the charge were thus, Honour the face of the old man, as thou fearest God, who will punish thee if thou dost not. How tenderly God takes it to have them wronged by any; you may gather by his complaint thereof, against the king of Baby∣lon, Thou didst shew them no mercy: upon the