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Title:  A memento to young and old: or, The young man's remembrancer, and the old man's monitor. By that eminent and judicious divine, Mr. John Maynard, late of Mayfield in Sussex. Published by William Gearing, minister of the Gospel
Author: Maynard, John, 1600-1665.
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daily! that death may become familiar to you, and not come as a stranger, or an ene∣my, or an Executioner when it doth come; but rather as a friend, to let your Souls out of this prison of the flesh, that ye may enter in∣to glory and blessedness.SERMON VI.Eccles. 2. 1.—nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.CHAP. I.IN this last Clause of the Verse, the daies of Old Age are opposed unto the daies of Youth, in these terms, The years wherein shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. Hence I note,Observ. That this short and mortal life may outlast the pleasures and all the con∣tentments of this life. This life is short, yet as short as it is, it many times is longer than the comforts of this life, longer than the de∣lights and pleasures of this world. There be years within the compass of this shor, wherein a man shall find no pleasure, shall be weary of himself. Man is bu0