Íik , 28 Chap. 30. 4n Expofftion open the Book! of J o a. Verf.z youngmen, makes their old age nothing elfe but an unweildy burden of bodily infirmities fo others by their deboyfhery in youth, are quite unburden'd and divefted of their bodyes before they reach old age, whereto could the ftrength ofthole young Ñens hands profit lab, in whom old age perifhed, by dying in their yotoh. rnetiur pro P,fhly, Old age may be taken in thii place, for the adjundis Jrizuprxdrn- ofold age, or for thofe excellencies of wifdome and gravity, tii. M]ta:ho-a of prudes ce and xperience, or of ability and fits of e ro give f;,h>i,tfi. P.fc, counfcl about, ana affltance in bufines, which often both ac- s;r»ycrc,rèr ;rs company and honour old men. This, poiThily might be the te!ligs, in fewfir .sure er :r fever meaningof the Septuagint, reedring, iowhom perfcéison a as pe- non f,i% íed rifüed ; that is, the pertettions ofold age. Thus both in Scripture ad,sc pxeror. and in common fpeataing, there is an old age which is not mea- tc. lured by the length ofdayes, hot by the improvementof them. When young men are w!fe ad fober, old age appeares in them. Anal. old age is perifhhd: in the aged, when wifdome is not with. them. Thus the words are expounded by a metaphor of the fubjeä for the ad¡waft. The prudent ( though young) are to be numbred with the Ancient ; And vaine imprudent old men deferve to be numbred among children. Hence all great Conn- eels OfState (as among the Lacede,nónians and Romans, &c. ) are called Senates, and their Cauncellors, Senators or Ancients, not that all whowere taken into thole Counfels, were old in . yeares, but in wifdome and gravity. Some beare the fruits of ',toll craw ad old age, in the greennefs and fpring oftheir life, being well bal. puidvir agria lanced and ballafted by a ferious judgement well felled and ant= y j , feneNitte,Iene grounded by finely and expericace ; Others are light headed agate carerter. and frothy,iight-fpirited and foolifh,though gray-hayr'd; There want old age, even in their old age or in them old age is peri- .fbed. So then, when ?oh faith,oid age was perished in thee men, we may underfand him thus; They were fo farce from being fit for any Employment in their youth, that in old age,whenmens kilts and vanitiesnre to dechne,even then in that little remainder, or fagg end of theirdayes, they did nor incline to any honeft bufines, nor dedicate themfelves to what was good, they did not live foberly and temperately, much letTe holily in their old age. Though-they did not perifh in their youth, yet both their youth. x.nd their old age periflaed. There is a truth in any of chefs Inn ter-.
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