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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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Epa. I thought not that the time of my life had been so short, & therefore I deferred the matter. But I ⟨p. 133⟩see now,1 that no man is certain of his life until to morrow: therefore ought we all to watch, & to provide that we be not found unready, when the Lord cometh.
Epa. I thought not that the tyme of my life had bene so short, & ther•fore I deferred the matter. But I ⟨p. 133⟩se now,1 that no man is certain of his life vntill to morowe: therfore ought we all to watche, & to prouide that we be not found vnready, whē the Lord commeth.
- 1Mar. xxiiii. Mark. xiii. Apoc. xvi.
The. When that godly king Hezekiah was sick,1 God sent the Prophet Isaiah unto him, and willed him to say unto him on this wise. Thus sayeth the Lord God: Set thy house in an order, for thou shalt die and not live. Here learn we the good will of God, which is, that they, whom the Lord hath endu•ed with the goods of the world, •hould before their departure set a godly order and quiet stay in their temporal possessions.