A09461:108
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.
Jacobus ⟨p. 178⟩Latromus of the same university of Louvain, after that he had been at Brussels, and there thinking to do a great act against Luther and his fellows, made an oration before the Emperor so foolishly and ridiculously that he was laughed to scorn almost of the whole court: then returning from thence to Louvain again, in his public lecture he fell into open madness, uttering such words of desperation and blasphemous impiety, that other Divines which were present, were fain to carry him away as he was raving, and to shut him into a close chamber. From that time to his very last breath, he had never any thing else in his mouth, but that he was damned and rejected of God, and that there was no hope of salvation ⟨p. 179⟩for him, because that wittingly and against his knowledge, he withstood the manifest truth of Gods word. Crescentius the Popes Legate and Vicegerent in the council of Trent; was sitting all the day long until dark night in writing of letters to the Pope: after his labour when night was come, thinking to refresh himself, he began to rise; and at his rising, behold there appeared to him a mighty black dog of an huge bigness, his eyes flaming with fire, & his ears hanging low down well near to the ground, which began to enter in and straight to come towards him, and so to couch under the board. The Cardinal not a little amazed at the sight thereof, somewhat recovering himself called immediately to his ⟨p. 180⟩servants which were in the outward chamber next by, to bring in a candle and to seek for the dog. But when the dog could not be found there nor in any other chamber about, the Cardinal thereupon stricken with a sudden conceit of mind, immediately fell into such a sickness, whereof his Physicians which he had about him could not with all their industry and cunning cure him: and thereupon he died. Steven Gardiner, when a certain Bishop came unto him and put him in mind of Peter denying his master, answered again that he had denied with Peter, but never repented with Peter, and so (to use M. Foxes words) stinkingly and unrepentantly died. More examples might be added, but these shall suffice.
Iacobus ⟨p. 178⟩