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The physic of the soulThe physyke of the soule
The physic of the soul wherein thou shalt find many Godly emplastures [and] comfortable salves against all spiritual diseases very necessary to be red of the true christians in these last and perilous days. Set forth by Thomas Becon.The physyke of the soule wherin thou shalt finde many Godly emplastures [and] confortable salues agaynst al spiritual diseases very necessary to be red of the true christians in these last and perilous dayes. Set forth by Thomas Becon.
london: printed by T. Raynold and W. Hill, 1549
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In thes agonies except our breast be strengthened and made sure with great and constant faith, it shall be •eopardus, lest we being made weary & dashed out of countenance through thes grievous and mighty tentations / do fall unto desperation. For those things which come unto our remembrance when we be sick, seem unto us most horrible and most heinous, yea and that for none other cause, than that our faith is weak and slender, and not as yet grown unto such perfection, that trusting on gods word, is able to lay hand on those exceeding and in estimable treasures and riches of the sons of god, I mean / remission of all our sins through christ, the resurrection of our flesh, yt fellowship of all the elect, so greatly to be desired & longed for: to conclude, everlasting life, and that all these things are freely ⟨image 7⟩[…] for christs sake. In these articles of our faith should we exercise our selves daily & after that we have diligently weighed them & earnestly pondered them, repose them in our mind. We ought also often times to come unto the communion and that holy table of the Lord, yet so ye we first prove and Examine our selves diligently, lest we un•everently handle so holy a thing: and though it be convenient at all other times to eat y• supper of the lord, for our comfort: yet is it now most necessary & we have in the time of our sickness an urgent cause to do it. Truly, it is a pitiful thing and a thing worthy to be lamented / that now many years this sacrament of the body and blood of Jesus Christ hath ben both unworthily and unreverntly handled, yea of very many most extremely despited How horrible and heinous a sin ⟨image 7⟩[…] punished now adays do abundantly testify: and S. Paul spake of it before. i Cor. xi. God have mercy on us and lighten the •ies of our mind that we leaving so an unseemly & horrible error, may ones repent and a•end We shall therefore often times come unto this table with high study of godliness and devotion, that our minds being recreated, cheered & comforted with that heavenly m•ate of the soul, faith & charity may be increased and made strong in us.