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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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Shall our knowledge be inferior to Adams knowledge in Paradise• When Christ was transfigured i• mount Thabor, his disciples, Pe•ter, James, & John, did not only know Christ, but also Moses and Elijah,1 which talked there with Christ, whom notwithstanding they had never seen nor known in the flesh.2 Whereof we may learne• that when we come to behold th• glorious majesty of the great God we shall not only know our sau• our Christ, and such as with wh•• ⟨p. 333⟩we were acquainted in this world, but also all the elect and chosen people of God, which have been from the beginning of the world, as the holy Apostle saith: Ye are come to the mount Zion, and to the city of the living God,3 the celestial Jerusalem, and to an innumerable sight of angels, and unto the congregation of the first borne sons, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just and perfect men, and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament. &c. When we are once come unto that heavenly Jerusalem, we shall with out all doubt both see and know Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, David, Josiah, John Baptist, Mary the Mother of Christ, Peter, John, James, Paul, and all the most blessed company of the Patriarchs, ⟨p. 334⟩prophets, apostles, martyrs, with all other the faithful. As we are all members of one body, whereof Jesus Christ is the head: so shall we know one another, rejoice together & be glad one with another. Moreover the history which we read of the rich unmerciful man and of Lazarus,4 declareth evidently, that in the life to come we shall know one an other. In that we see that the rich glutton being in hell did know both Abraham, and Lazarus, being in joy, and that Abraham also knew that unmerciful rich man, although the one was in glory, the other in pain. If that they which are in hell, doth both see and know them that are in heaven, and they which are in heaven, know them also that are in hell, the one place being so far distant from the other: much more do they know one another that