7:HAP.1.2. 346 Elder mcn muff tarda a feemly { graurty o thheireourlthrough . ftc afons. Alia arar alioa more; poflulat. I 2 robegel.tr, lob ;z.. . 3 cil Commensarieepos the ey privateman, r.Tim.2.i. But yet the older fort, in all eftates,ought a- boueother to Carrie aconfiant cornlincffe,audgraue authoritie,yea a fa- therly kind ofrcuerent behauiour : that the grauitie of their manners, may be futable to the grauitieof their yeares; yea and may adorne their age :being as farre from the lightnes of youth in their whole conuerfa, tion, as they have paffed it in the number of their dayes. Reafons hereof are , r.God bathhonoured them , and put dignitie upon them, by reafon of their yeares : gluing them in the fifth Com- mandement thename and honour offathers, for the loue, and reuerence, which by their graue andworthy carriage, is due to them from their in- feriours : and Leuit. ig. 32. Then(halt rtfevp before the hoare head , and honour the perfon of the aide man. Now Peeing God bath bound the younger to honour theolder; he bath alto bound theolder to main- taine their honour and reverence, by a reverent and Chrifiian conuerfa - tion : for honour is onfeemey for afoot.e, Prou. 26. a. They are to in. firutici and admonifh others of their dutie , and of their failings : and rhos ought to become eyes to the blind and feete to the lame : and the yonger fort are to heare and waite, holding their tongue at their cairn- fell. 'Now let the aduifc, admonition, or counfell be neuer fo iufi,whol_ forme, experienced ; yet it cannot choofebut loofe all the aurhoririe and, credit of it, if theconverfacion of a man be vaine, light, youthfull,or a- ny way vnfeen:cly : fo as they who failc from this precept,difable them- felon from performance of fo neceffarie a duty. 3. 'Too Common a thing it is in our corruption, CO leffen in our hearts the due reckoning and ellimationof theaged, who haue paffed their prime, and (as we falfely lay) their bell daies; the prouerb is true , we adore the funne ri- fing, but contemnc it letting. Hence Salomon obfcrued , (as weallo may behold) all the living with the fecond child: that is, the Princeap.- parant, which was CO raigne after his fathers deceafe; or in great fami -. lies,the heirsand young mafiers,who are duly obfcruedand flattered by ail the leruants. Now if theolder fort would provide againft the con- tempt of that age,ic mull be by fuch a feemelygrauity,as may dafh light- neseven with the pr efence:fo did Iob,a9.8. Ì he youngmen[awe me, and hid themfelues,the aged arofe and£foodvp. The which confideration as it teacheh how to rettine the honour, and crowneofage: fo alto when men falle of that due regard their yeares feeme to call for ; that theyare not (as aloft old mendoe) to laie all theblame upon the inlolencie ofyouth, as not trained tobetter man- ners; but ,to examine how their owne footfteps haue beene diredted: and whether they haue not let fall the crowue of their age, which is the grace and grauitie of it : and in a word, whereinand how £arre, they haue
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