The Practice of Piety

Meditations of the misery, of the body and soul in death.

Meditations of the misery, of the body and soule in death.

After that the aged man hath conflicted with long sickness; and having endured the brunt of pain, should now expect some ease: in comes Death, Natures slaughter-man, Gods curse and Hells purveyor, and looks the old man grim and black in the face: and neither pitying his age, nor regarding his long-endured dolours) will not be hired to forbear, either for silver or gold: nay, he will not take, to spare his life, skin for skin, ¹and all that the old man ⟨p. 94⟩hath, but batters all the principal parts of his body, and arrests him to appear before the terrible Judge. And as thinking that the old man will not dispatch to go with him fast enough: Lord, how many darts of calamities doth he shoot through him, stitches, aches, cramps, fevers, obstructions, rheums, flegme, colic, stone, wind, &c.

AFter that the aged man hath conflicted vvith long sicknesse; and hauing endured the brunt of paine, should now expect some ease: in comes Death, Natures slaughter-man, Gods curse and Hels purueyor, and lookes the olde man grimme and blacke in the face: and neither pitying his age, nor regarding his long-endured dolours) will not be hyred to forbeare, eyther for siluer or gold: nay, he will not take, to spare his life, skin for skin, ¹and all that the olde man ⟨p. 94⟩hath, but batters all the principall parts of his body, and arrests him to appeare before the terrible Iudge. And as thinking that the olde man will not dispatch to goe with him fast enough: Lord, how many darts of calamities doth he shoot through him, stitches, aches, crampes, feauers, obstructions, rhewmes, flegme, collicke, stone, wind, &c.