Repentance not to be put off till old age. [ 1405]
COmmon experience teacheth, that a Ship the longer it leaketh, the har∣der it is to be emptied;* 1.1 An house the longer it goes to decay, the worse it is to repair: And a nail, the farther it is driven in, the harder it will be to get out: Such is the condition of Repentance put off till old age. Let us not then think to sacrifice our health and youth to the service of Sin and Sathan, and leave God onely the Dog-dayes of our age,* 1.2 a body full of sores, and a soul full of sin; Is it to be thought, that the trembling joynts, the dazeled eyes, the fainting heart, the fail∣ing leggs of unweildy, drooping, and indisciplinable old age, may empty, repair, pluck out, the leaks, the ruines, and nails of so many years flowing, failing and fastning? and so make that the task of our old age, which should be the practice of all our life, settling our everlasting, our onely, our surest making or marring, upon so tottering, sinking and sandy foundation as old age is.