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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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Phil. Blessed Luke telleth,1 that a certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said unto his father: father give me the portion of the goods that to me belongeth. And he divided unto them his substance Hitherto have ye heard of the fathers liberality toward his son It followeth: and not long after ⟨p. 91⟩•hen the younger son had gathered […] that he had together, he took his ••urney into a far country▪ & there •e wasted his goods with riotous ••uing. Here see we the wickedness •f the son. Now behold the plague of God. And when he had spent all: there •rose a great dearth in all that land, •nd he began to lack, and went & •ame to a citizen of the same country, & he sent him to his farm to •epe swine. And he would have fil••d his belly with the cods that […] swine did eat, & no man gave •nto him. Thus see ye into how •reat misery he is fallen for the diffusing of his goods. Behold •ow again his repentant & sorrowful hart: Then he came to him self, […] said: how many hired servants […] my fathers have bread enough? ••d I perish with hunger. I •ill arise, and go to my Father, •nd will say unto him: Father, I ⟨p. 92⟩have sinned against heaven & before thee: and am no more worthy to be called thy son, make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose and cam to his father. Now mark also the pitiful compassion and tender mercy of the father toward his son. But when he was yet a great way of, his father saw him, and had compassion, & ran, and fell on his neck, & kissed him And the son said unto hym father I have sinned against heaven & thy in sight, & am no more worthy to be called thy son. Bu the father said to his servants bring forth the best garment, an put it on him, and put a ring o his hand, and shoes on his feet And bring hither that fat calf, kill it, and let us eat & be merry for this my son was dead, & i alive again, he was lost, and i found. And they begun to be mer