A09461:118
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.
The last combat with the §1devil in the pang of death, it oftentimes most dangerous of all. For then he will not urge men to desperation, knowing that by this means he shall stir them up to resist him: but he labours with them, that they would not resist him when he assaults them, and by this means he endeavours to extinguish hope: and this thing is not done in any other temptation in which faith or hope alone are impugned, whereas in this they are ⟨p. 192⟩both impugned together. This must be thought upon, for when the devils temptation is, not to resist his temptation; it is most deceitful of all: and it is more easy to overcome the enemy that compels us to fight, then him that dissuades us from it.
THe last combate with the §1diuell in the pang of death, it oftentimes most dangerous of all. For then he will not vrge men to desperation, knowing that by this meanes he shall stir them vp to resist hm: but hee labours with them, that they would not resist him when hee assaults them, and by this means hee endeauours to extinguish hope: and this thing is not done in any other tēptation in which faith or hope alone are impugned, whereas in this they are ⟨p. 192⟩both impugned togither. This must be thought vpon, for whē the diuels temptation is, not to resist his temptation; it is most deceitfull of all: and it is more easie to ouercome the enemie that compels vs to fight, then him that disswades vs from it.
The temptation of M. John Knox in time of his death is worth the marking.1 He lay on his death-bed silent for the space of four hours, very often giving great sighs, sobs, and groans, so as the standers by well perceived that he was troubled with some grievous temptation: and when at length he was raised in his bed, they asked him how he did, and what was the cause of his much sighing, to whom he answered thus; that in his life he had endured many combats and conflicts with Satan,