adds in the next verse, my Soul also is sore vexed, his case was more lamenta∣ble. What comfort can a man have, when his Apprehension is grown blunt? What's a Knife good for, when the met∣tle is gone? When a man can attain lit∣tle, and retain nothing? The deficiency of these is a great impediment in all hu∣mane affairs, but of greater consequence in Religious matters. The Communion which the Soul hath with God is in the Word and Prayer. How disconsolate must the Heart be, when one can remember almost nothing of what he reads or hears? When his affections flagg, and his words freeze in Prayer? Why, he thinks he has lived long enough, he feels himself more than half dead already. The House is left standing, but all the rich Furni∣ture is gone, and what can be said to mitigate this misery, or to reconcile any body to Old-age?To stop any further Impatience, Con∣sider, 1. That this great Decay in the Faculties doth not befall every Aged per∣son. Divers there are and have been, that retain the free use of their Facul∣ties till they dye. How many doth Tully name, as Simonides, Stesichorus, Isocrates, Hesiod, Homer, Pythagoras,0