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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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Phi. God be thanked, he yet speaketh, yea he godly speaketh. Brother Epaphroditus, take a good heart unto you, shrink not. Fight a good fight. Be not discouraged, nether with the terrors of satan, nor with the pains of death. God is on your side. God is your grand captain. You fight under the banner of that most mighty and victorious Emperor Jesus Christ. ⟨p. 531⟩Only continue, as you have begun, and the day is yours. Satan with all his army, like miserable cowards shall be put to flight and vanquished. You shall have a joyful victory over them. The pain of the battle, is short and light, but the glory of your triumph shall abide for ever & ever.1 Hear what your grand captain saith: he that continueth unto the end shall be saved.2 To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.3 Be faithful unto the death, and I shall give the the crown of life.4 Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. Yea to him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me in my seat. Here see you, what precious and most noble rewards are set forth unto ⟨p. 532⟩you, if you go forth valiantly to fight against your enemies, which seek your destruction. Only believe, only fix the eyes of your faith on Christ crucified. Only engrave in your heart deeply a sure and undoubted confidence in the merciful promises of God the father, which he hath made unto you in the precious blood of his dearly beloved Son, and our alone saviour Jesus Christ, and you shall most certainly have the victory, and obtain the reward of joyful immortality. Here what your grand captain Christ saith: God hath so dearly loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that every one that believeth on him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For god sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved by him. ⟨p. 533⟩