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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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Phi. Nay, not so neighbour. I• is rather an evident token of his singular love & hearty good will toward you, which lovingly correcteth you in this world, that ye ma• repent, knowledge your fault, amend ⟨p. 55⟩your life, call for mercy and so live worthy your profession, again that through this temporal pain, ye may be free from everlasting plagues,1 & never come into that lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone.2 This witnesseth s. Paul, saying: While we are punished, we are corrected of the lord that we should not with this world be condemned.3 When God suffereth the wicked in this world to flourish like a bay tree, and licentiously to sin without any punishment, as he suffered the rich glutton, of whom ye read in the Gospel of blessed Luke,4 it is an evident argument, that such one is reserved unto the pains of the world to come,5 which never shall have end, where weeping and gnashing of teethe shall be, as ye see it chanced to the afore said rich glutton, unto whom God ⟨p. 56⟩said: son, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy pleasure,6 and contrariwise, Lazarus received pain. But now is he comforted, and thou art punished: so doth our saviour Christ threaten the ungodly,7 saying: Woe be to you that are full, for ye shall hunger, Woe be unto you that now laugh, for ye shall wail and weep. The holy Apostle also sayeth: What son is he,8