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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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Ep. No kind of superstitious custom do I allow. That is godly, I only commend. As touching your solemn •inging,1 it is all one to me, whither you sing or say. Those Psalms, hymns, praises & thanksgivings that be appointed to be •ong or said at the burial of the faithful, let them be done in the name •f God withal cheerfulness of mind. •s for your devout ringing,2 I •rave no more but one •el to be ether tolled or rung, for to gather •he people together, to hear the ⟨p. 172⟩word of God, and the thanks g••uing. The ringing of the Belles can do my soul no good. And a• for your holy sensing, priests pattering, candles lighting, torches burning: away with them, a• things superfluous and unprofitable. Now as concerning Communions,3 saying or singing: the• serve not for the burials of them that are departed, but for the exercises of them that be alive, tha• by that means they should call t• remembrance the death of Christ and the fruits thereof, as the Apostle saith:4 So oft as ye shall eat o• this bread, and drink of the Cup ye shall remember the Lords death till he come.5 These sumptuous • costly burials, are not to be commended, nether do they profit either body or soul, but only seforth a foolish, vain, and boasting pomp.