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The sick mans salve Wherein the faithful christians may learn both how to behave…The sycke mans salue VVherin the faithfull christians may learne both how to behaue…
The sick mans salve Wherein the faithful christians may learn both how to behave them selves patiently and thankfully, in the time of sickness, and also virtuously to dispose their temporal goods, and finally to prepare them selves gladly and godly to die. Made and newly recognised by Master Tho. Becon. 1561.The sycke mans salue VVherin the faithfull christians may learne both how to behaue them selues paciently and thankefully, in the tyme of sickenes, and also vertuously to dispose their temporall goodes, and finally to prepare them selues gladly and godly to die. Made and newly recognised by Maister Tho. Becon. 1561.
London: printed by John Day, 1561London: printed by Iohn Day, 1561
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Ep. I must needs confess most gentle neighbours, that I have received much consolation and great comfort of your company, and specially that […] have thus enarmed, yea and fortressed my breast with the comfortable sentences and histories of th• holy scriptures against the bitte• storms of adversity, and I heartily thank you for your pains. Notwithstanding this must I nede• ⟨p. 47⟩say unto you, that I find not my self in my conscience to be of such godliness and virtue, that I dare compare my self with Joseph, David, Job, and Toby, whom ye recited unto me, but much inferior both unto them and unto their godliness of life, so that although they being righteous of the very love, which God bare toward them, were assailed with adversity, to this end, that their faith and constancy might be proved & tried unto the example of other, yet I find in my self such imperfection, yea such abundance of •in, that it may justly be thought that this sickness, which is laid upon me, cometh from such a God, as is angry with me for my sinful life, and therefore is his heavy hand thus laid upon me. What think ye good neighbours.
Ep. I must nedes cōfesse most gētle neighbors, that I haue receiued muche consolation and great cōfort of youre company, and specially that 〈…〉 haue thus enarmed, yea and fortressed my brest with the cōforta•ble sentenses and histories of th• holy scriptures against the bitte• stormes of aduersitie, and I hart•ly thank you for your pains. Not•withstanding this must I nede• ⟨p. 47⟩say vnto you, that I finde not my self in my conscience to be of suche godlines and vertue, that I dare compare my selfe with Ioseph, Dauid, Iob, and Toby, whome ye recited vnto me, but muche inferior bothe vnto them and vnto their godlines of life, so that although they being righteous of the very loue, which God bare toward them, wer assailed with aduersitie, to this ende, yt their faith and constancy might be proued & tried vnto the example of other, yet I fynd in my selfe such imperfection, yea such aboundaunce of in, that it may iustly be thought that this sicknesse, whiche is laid vpon me, commeth from suche a God, as is angry with me for my innefull life, and therefore is his heauy hand thus laide vpon me. What thinke ye good neighbors.