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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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therefore shall we his members ascend ⟨p. 258⟩and go up into heaven both body and soul also, Christ our head was taken up into Heaven in a cloud both body and soul, therefore shall we his members also be taken up in a cloud to meet the lord, and so shall we both body and soul dwell with the Lord Christ our head for ever and ever,1 as the holy Apostle testifieth, saying: If we believe that Jesus died, & rose again, even so them which sleep by Jesus, God will bring again with him.2 For this say we unto you in the word of the Lord, that we which shall live, and shall remain in the coming of the lord, shall not come ere they which sleep.3 For the Lord him self shall descend from Heaven with a shout, and the voice of the Archangel and tromp of God.4 And the dead in Christ shall arise first: then we, which shall live (even we which ⟨p. 269⟩shall remain (shall be caught up with them in the clouds to mete the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Finally I unfeignedly believe with my heart,5 and freely confess with my mouth, that as the Lord Christ is ascended into heaven: so shall he come again from heaven with power and much glory, nobly accompanied with thousands of blessed▪ Angels and heavenly saints, for to judge the quick and the dead, the faithful and unfaithful, and to give▪ every man his reward according to that he hath done,6 whether it be good or bad.7 And when he thus gloriously shall come unto the judgement,