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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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Phile. Continue in this faith unto the end, and you shall surely be saved.
Phile. Cōtinue in this faith vnto the end, and you shall surely be saued.
Ep. As God hath taken away my sight, so do all my other senses decay.
Ep. As God hath taken away my syght, so do al my other senses decaye.
Phi. Though by the appointment of God, you lose your bodily speech, yet shall your soul in the heavenly kingdom sing, praise and magnify the Lord your God, worlds without end. And all be it the bodily hearing be taken away from you, yet shall your soul in the kingdom of God hear such sweet, pleasant, & delectable things, as never mortal man heard, nor may hear the like. Again, although your going, ⟨p. 526⟩and the use of your whole body be taken away from you, and your body return unto the earth from whence it came, yet doubt you not, but your soul being once delivered out of the prison of your body, shall serve the lord your god perfectly,1 and joyfully follow the Lamb Christ. whither so ever he goeth.2
Phi. Though by the appointment of God, you lose your bodely speache, yet shall your soule in the heauenly kyngdom sing, prayse and magnify the Lord your God, worldes without end. And all be it the bodely hearing be taken away from you, yet shall your soule in the kingdom of God hear such swete, pleasaunt, & delectable thinges, as neuer mortall man heard, nor may hear the like. Againe, although your going,