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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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Theo. Is he to be lamented and mourned for which is removed from thraldom unto liberty, from misery unto wealth: from darkness unto light: from jeopardy unto safety: from sickness unto health: from mortality unto immortality: from corruption unto uncorruption: from pain unto ⟨p. 167⟩joy: from transitory things unto everlasting things: from the company of men, unto the fellowship of the blessed angels and heavenly spirits. &c? Let the Heathen which have no hope of the joyful immortality of the soul, nor of the glorious resurrection of the body, mourn, weep, and lament for their diseased: let the faithful Christians be joyful in the Lord, and thank God for his great mercy and infinite goodness, which he hath showed upon the brethren, by calling them from this vale of wretchedness unto his heavenly kingdom.1 For the voice of God even from heaven, pronounceth them blessed, happy, & fortunate, which die in the Lord.
Theo. Is he to be lamē ted and mourned for whiche is remoued from thraldom vnto libertie, from mysery vnto welth: from darknes vnto lyght: from ieopardy vnto safetie: from sicknesse vnto health: frō mortalitie vnto immortalitie: from corruption vnto vncorruption: from paine vnto ⟨p. 167⟩ioy: from transitory thinges vnto euerlasting thinges: from the cō pany of men, vnto the felowshyp of the blessed aungels and heauē ly spirites. &c? Let the Heathen whiche haue no hope of the ioyful immortalitie of the soule, nor of the glorious resurrection of the body, mourne, wepe, and lament for their diseased: let the faythfull Christians be ioyfull in the Lord, and thank God for his great mercy and infinite goodnes, whiche he hath shewed vpon the brethrē, by calling them from this vale of wretchednes vnto his heauenlye kingdome.1 For the voyce of God euen from heauen, pronounceth them blessed, happy, & fortunate, which die in the Lord.
- 1Apo. xiiii.