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CONTENTS.

ADDRESS I.

DIFFICULTIES OF OLD AGE.

JEREMIAH VI. 4.-Woe unto us! for the day goeth

away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched

out

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ADDRESS II.

THE SORROWS OF OLD AGE.

ECCLESIASTES vi. 3.-If a man live many years, so that

the days of his years are many, and his soul be not

filled with good; I say, that an untimely birth is

better than he

ADDRESS III.

DISAPPOINTED PROCRASTINATION.

GENESIS XI. 32.-The days of Terah were two hundred

and five years: and Terah died in Haran

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ADDRESS IV.

INEFFECTIVE REPENTANCE.

1 KINGS ii. 28.-And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of

the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar

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ADDRESS V.

THE LATTER END.

DEUTERONOMY xxxii. 29.-Oh that they were wise,

that they understood this, that they would consider

their latter end!

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ADDRESS I.

DIFFICULTIES OF OLD AGE.

JEREMIAH VI. 4.

Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

THE subject which from this text I design to commend to your notice, is an old age without piety. It is truly a painful subject. But it is one to which faithfulness in duty requires us to call the serious attention of procrastinating man. In the remarks which I shall have occasion to make upon this subject, so far as they are addressed to those who have not yet attained this late period of life, it will be my duty to employ the most solemn admonition and warning. In regard to those among my hearers, who are already aged, or who are verging upon it in the declining years of manhood, it becomes me to use the utmost tenderness of manner, without

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