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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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Why should we that live by hope, that believe in God, & trust that Christ suffered for us, & is risen again, that remain in Christ, and be risen by him, and in him, •e so unwilling to depart out of this world, or else mourn & lament such as be departed, as though they were lost, sense Christ our •ord & our God doth admonish us, •aying:1 I am the resurrection and •he life, he that believeth on me, ⟨p. 158⟩yea though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. If we believe in Christ, and trust his words and his promises, we shall never die, but shall come with glad surety unto Christ, with whom we shall ever live & reign. And yt in the mean season we do die, we do but thereby pass to immortality. For except we depart from hence, the life everlasting can not come. Death is no departure, but a passage, to the intent that this worldly journey once over run, we may come unto eternity. Wh• will not make haste to a better estate? Who will not desire to be changed and transformed into the likeness of Christ, and to come out of hand to the dignity of the heavenly grace? which thing Paul the Apostle doth declare. Our conversation, saith he:2 is in heaven ⟨p. 159⟩from whence we look for a Saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ, which shall transform our vile body, that he may make it like unto his glorious body. And Christ the Lord, doth promise, that we shall be such, when that we may be with him, live with him in his eternal seat, and rejoice with him in his heavenly kingdom, he prayeth unto the father for us on this manner: father I will that they, which thou haste given me, be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, for ye didst love me before the making of the world. Therefore we •ught nether to mourn nor to la•ent for coming unto the seat of Christ, to the glory of the heavenly king ō, but ought rather according to he promise of God, according to he faith of the verity to rejoice […] our departure and transformation.