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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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Epa. I have an earnest faith in the blood of Christ, that God the father will forgive me all my sins for Christs sake.
Epa. I haue an earnest fayth in the bloud of Christ, that God the father will forgeue me al my sinnes for Christes sake.
Phi. You thus believing can not perish, but this your faith is an undoubted assurance unto your conscience, that you are predestinate to be saved. For it is written, God hath so dearly loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that all that believe on him, should not perish, but ⟨p. 445⟩•ave everlasting life.1 For God •ent not his Son into the world •o condemn the world, but that •he world should be saved by him. He that believeth on him, is not condemned. He that believeth on •he Son, hath everlasting life. Verily, verily I say unto you, he •hat heareth my word,2 and bele•eth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come •nto damnation, but is scaped •rom death unto life. This is the •athers will, that sent me, that of •l which he hath given me, I shall •ose nothing, but raise them up again at the last day.3