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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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•hi. Truth it is,1 that the Lord is •ood and gracious unto them that •ut their trust in him, and to the •ule that seeketh after him. •herfore brother Epaphroditus, •re not in this your sickness diligently and without ceasing to flee •nto God with hearty and faithful prayers, nothing doubting […] that he will favourably hear […], and grant you, whatsoever […] ask according to his will as s. john saith:2 this is the trust that •e have in him, that if we ask •y thing according to his will, […] heareth us. And if we know that ⟨p. 110⟩he hear us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desire of him. For the Lord is nigh unto all that call on him, yea that call on him in truth.3 After this manner did all good men & women behave them selves, whensoever they were assailed with any kind of trouble or adversity.4 King Hezekiah wham he was grievously sick, and had received a commandment from God, that he should set his house in an order, for he should die an• not live, turned his face to th• wall, and prayed unto the Lord, the Lord heard him, made hi• whole and saved him alive .xv•• years after. The three children Sidrach,5 Meshach, & Abednego when they were cast into the fiery furnace because they would not worship the golden Image […] the commandment of king Nbuchodonosor,