Ecclesiastes 12

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Now in youth seriously think of, believe in, and serve the Divine Persons, who made, preserve, and redeem men, before the disquieting and disqualifying infirmities of old age come upon you

Ecclesiastes 12:2

Before the comforts of life, which render it agreeable, be withdrawn, and the powers of your mind and senses of your body be rendered almost useless, and the calamities of old age arise successively one after another: 3. When your head, arms, and hands, shall shake, through weakness or palsy; your once strong shoulders stoop, and your legs and thighs bow under their weight; your teeth be generally lost, and your eyes sunk in their sockets and become dim

Ecclesiastes 12:4

Before your lips be but a little open to eat or talk, because of the loss or looseness of teeth; before you be incapable to walk in the streets; your rest broken, and every little noise awaken you; your lungs fail, your voice become inharmonious and harsh, and your ears dull, and regardless of music

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Before you, unable to climb, become afraid to mount or move on high, nay, are afraid of falling in the common way; before your hair become white; the least noise or weight become burdensome, and the lightest food load your stomach; and there be no inclination to, or delight in, former pleasures, because you draw nigh to the grave and the other world, when your friends shall lament their loss, and the hired mourners publicly pour forth their pretended sorrows

Ecclesiastes 12:6

Remember your Creator, before the union between your soul and body be loosed, or the pith of your back and nerves be weakened; the vessel, in which your brain and animal spirits are contained, be rendered unfit for use; your veins and arteries, which convey the blood and vital spirits be rendered unfit to convey them any more from the right or left ventricles of your heart

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And your body be laid in the grave, to moulder in the lust, and your soul appear to be judged 2 **