A09461:101
A salve for a sick man. or, A treatiseA salve for a sicke man. or, A treatise
A salve for a sick man. or, A treatise containing the nature, differences, and kinds of death as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serve for spiritual instruction to 1. Mariners when they go to sea. 2. Soldiers when they go to battle. 3. Women when they travel of child.A salve for a sicke man. or, A treatise containing the nature, differences, and kindes of death as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serue for spirituall instruction to 1. Mariners when they goe to sea. 2. Souldiers when they goe to battell. 3. Women when they trauell of child.
London: printed by John Legat, 1611London: printed by Iohn Legat, 1611
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
because thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling, I shall walk before Jehovah in the land of the living. And some others spake of the vanity ⟨p. 168⟩of this life, of the imagination of the sorrows of death, of the beginnings of eternal life, of the comfort of the holy Ghost which they feel, of their departure unto Christ.
because thou hast deliuered my soule from death, mine eies from teares, and my feete frō falling, I shall walke before Iehoua in the land of the liuing. And some others spake of the vanity ⟨p. 168⟩of this life, of the imaginatiō of the sorrowes of death, of the beginnings of eternall life, of the comfort of the holy Ghost which they feele, of their departure vnto Christ.
Quest. What must we think if in the time of death such excellent speeches be wanting: and in stead thereof idle talk be used? Answ. We must consider the kind of sickness whereof men die, whether it be more easy or violent: for violent sickness is usually accompanied with frenzies, and with unseemly motions and gestures, which we are to take in good part even in this regard, because we our selves may be in the like case.
Quest. What must we thinke if in the time of death such excellent speeches bewanting: and in stead thereof idle talke be vsed? Answ. We must consider the kinde of sicknesse whereof mē die, whether it be more easie or violent: for violent sicknesse is vsually accompanied with frensies, and with vnseemely motions and gestures, which we are to take in good part euen in this regard, because we our selues may be in the like case.