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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The. 1Ye gentiles, saith s. Paul, we• in times past without Christ, be•ing aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel, and straunger• from the testaments of the promise having no hope, and being without God in this world. But now by the means of Christ Jesus, […] which sometime were a far of, […] made nigh by the blood of Christ• For he is our peace, which hat• made of both one, and hath broke down the wall, that was a sta• ⟨p. 97⟩between us, and hath also put away through his flesh, the cause of hatred, even the law of commandments contained in the law written for to make of twain one new man in him self, so making peace & to reconcile both unto God in one body through the cross, and slue hatred thereby: and came and preached peace to you, which were a far of, and to them, which were nigh. For through him we both have an entrance in one spirit unto the father. Now therefore, ye are not strangers and foreigners, but citizens with the sain•es, and of the household of God, & •re built upon the foundation of […] Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ him self being the head corner […] stone, in whom what building soever is coupled together, […] groweth unto an holy temple […] the Lord, in whom ye also are ⟨p. 98⟩builded together, to be an habitation of God through the holy ghost:
The. 1Ye gentils, saith s. Paul, we• in times past without Christ, be•ing aliauntes from the Common••wealth of Israel, and straunger• frō the testaments of the promes hauing no hope, and being without God in this world. But now by the meanes of Christ Iesu, which somtime were a far of, made nie by the bloud of Christ For he is our peace, whiche hat made of both one, and hath brok downe the wall, that was a sta