A09461:107
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.
This being so, I do again renew my former exhortation, beseeching you that ye would practise the duties of preparation in the course of your lives, leading them daily in faith and obedience, and from time to time commending your selves into the hand of God, and casting all your works upon his providence. They, which have done this have made most happy and blessed ends. Enoch by faith walked with God, as one that was always in his presence, leading an upright and godly life,1 and the Lord took him away that he should not see death. And this which befell Enoch, shall after a sort befall them also that live in faith and obedience: because death shall be no death, but a sleep unto them, and no enemy but a friend to body and ⟨p. 176⟩soul. On the contrary let us consider the wretched & miserable ends of them that have spent their days in their sins without keeping faith & a good conscience. The people of the old world were drowned in the flood; the filthy Sodomites and Gomorrheans were destroyed with fire from heaven; Dathan and Abiram with the company of Core were swallowed up of the earth, Core himself (as it seems by the text) being burnt with fire:2 wicked Saul and Ahithophel and Judas destroy themselves. Herod is eaten up of worms and gave up the ghost: Julian the Apostate smitten with a dart in the field, died casting up his blood into the air & blaspheming the name of Christ. Arius the heretic died upon the stool scouring ⟨p. 177⟩forth his very entrails. And this very age affords store of like examples. Hoffemeister a great Papist,3 as he was going to the council of Ralisbone to dispute against the defenders of the Gospel, was suddenly in his journey prevented by the hand of God, and miserably died with horrible roaring and crying out. In the University of Louvain,4 Guarlacus a learned Papist falling sick, when he perceived no way with him but death, he fell into miserable agony and perturbation of spirit, crying out of his sins how miserably he had lived, and that he was not able to abide the judgement of God, & so casting out words of miserable desperation said, his sins were greater then they could be pardoned, and in that desperation ended his days.