spent, we are furnished by great experience to be very useful in our Gene∣ration. But when a Man is arrived at the latter part of Old-age, to be impo∣tent and decrepit, then he grows uneasy to himself, and unserviceable to others. These days may be called Evil days, and of these years it may be said, I have no plea∣sure in them, Eccles. 12. 1.SECT. IV.THE last Period of Old-age is§ 4. The long lives of divers.Death: Some indeed have been longer 'ere they tasted of Death, and some sooner; there is no certain definite year, wherein that last friendly Enemy comes.Omnium aetatum certus est terminus, senectutis autem nul∣lus certus est. Cicer. de sen. The Antediluvians lived eight or nine hundred years. Those which were born after the Flood, did scarce live half so long; for Arphaxad, who was born after it, lived but 440 years, Gen 11. 13. And in the time of Peleg his Grand-child, the Age of man was shrunk half in half shorter; he lived only 239 years, Gen. 11. 21. And in the Age of Nahor, great Grand-child to Peleg, it fell to 150. Gen. 11. 25. And so the ordinary term of mans life was by degrees curtail'd, that 0