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Title:  A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons / by Richard Steele ...
Author: Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
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hath yet bin found to cure Old∣age. The graves are ready for them, and the Worms wait for their last repast upon them. The moth of Mortality, which is bred in our Nature, will still be fretting the Garment of our Bodies, till they be consumed. Death is already got into the Aged persons Eye, and Ear, and in a short time will bring him unto the dust. Now though this be an unwelcome Mes∣senger to those that live at ease, yet to an holy Old man and woman it is a blessed Priviledge: for as looking back∣ward they see a tempting troublesome world, so looking forward they see by Faith a state of perfect Holiness and Hap∣piness prepared for them. This Faith as∣sures them, that the end of their fight, is the beginning of their Victory, and as they part from their labours, they take possession of their honoursPugnae finis est ini∣tium victo∣riae, & dum finiuntur labores, ac∣cedunt ho∣nores. Ri∣vet. de sen∣bon.. And doth not any Apprentice rejoyce, when the time of his service is near its expiration? I know Nature recoils at the approach of Death in the best, but Faith is then of greatest need and use, and the just may be said to dy, as well as to live by his faith. Thereby he sees Life and Immortality just before him, and one only miry step to pass, and then he is 0