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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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I am Abraham's God, & Isaacks God, & Jacobs God. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Also in an other place: The hour shall come,1 in the which all that are in the graves, shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and shall come forth, they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.2 Martha said unto Christ ⟨p. 492⟩of her brother Lazarus, when he was dead: I know that my brother shall rise again at the latter day. The holy Apostle s. Paul is plenteous in the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. I will rehearse one or two of his sentences,3 & bid the other farewell. The tromp, saith he, shall blow, and the dead shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, & this mortal must put on immortality.4 Again the Lord Jesus shall change our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. Also in an other place: I would not brethren have you ignorant concerning them, which are fallen asleep,5 that ye sorrow not as other do, which have no hope. For if we believe, that Jesus Christ died & rose again, even so they also, which sleep by Jesus, ⟨p. 493⟩will God bring again with him. Divers examples of the resurrection of our bodies have we both in the old and new testament. Elijah the Prophet raised up from death unto life the son of the widow of Sarepta.6 The like thing read we of Heliseus the Prophet.7 Christ raised from death the daughter of a certain ruler,8