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Of the preparation to the cross, and to death and of the comfort under…Of the preparation to the crosse, and to deathe and of the comforte vnder…
Of the preparation to the cross, and to death and of the comfort under the cross and death, two books very fruitful for devout people to read, translated from latin to english, by Richard Tracy.Of the preparation to the crosse, and to deathe and of the comforte vnder the crosse and death, two bokes very fruictefull for deuoute people to rede, translated from latyn to englysshe, by Rycharde Tracy.
Londini : In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno. M.D.XL. 1540Londini : In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno. M.D.XL. 1540
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¶Yet in affliction or sickness, medicine and counsel are not to be despised. Cap. x.
¶Yet in afflyction or syckenes, medicyne and councell are not to be despised. Cap. x.
FOR GOD by instruments performeth his will, and doth and worketh all things in their order by means, as clearly testifieth holy scripture.1 Isaiah commanded to take a cluster of figs, & to plaster them upon Hezekiah wound, and so to be made hole. This is certainly a great praise and defence to physic.2 For god will not the use of his creatures to be neglected or despised. He condemneth ⟨image 36⟩only the faith and confidence in creatures. And although he mought easily have healed Hezekiah, with one word: yet would he do it by medicine. So he mought bring forth and increase children of mans body, otherwise or by some other manner, but yet he will do it by the woman. Wherefore let us use things, as god hath created them, with thanks giving, and let us only put no confidence in them: as we read that Asa did,3 which in his sickness sought not the lord, but physicians. Hope must chiefly be put in the lord, and afterward let us use the help of physicians, as the benefit of god. Moreover, we must consider, that god hath created medicine, as witnesseth Jesus Sirach:4 Honour the physician ⟨image 37⟩for necessities sake, for the highest hath created him. For of god is all remedy. &c. Beside that, among the people of god, there were ever physicians, and Luke him self the evangelist was also a physician.