A09461:13
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 law & the gospel being two several and distinct parts of Gods word. Now this former sentence is legal & must be understood with an exception borrowed from the Gospel or the covenant of grace made with Adam, and revealed to him after his fall. The exception is this: Thou shalt certainly die whensoever thou eatest the forbidden fruit, except I do further give thee a means ⟨p. 7⟩of deliverance from death, namely the seed of the woman to bruise the serpents head. Secondly it may be answered, that Adam and all his posterity died, and that presently after his fall, in that his body was made mortal, and his soul became subject to the curse of the law. And whereas God would not utterly destroy Adam at the very first, but only impose on him the beginnings of the first and second death; he did the same in great wisdom, that in his justice he might make a way to mercy: which thing could not have been if Adam had perished.
the law & the gospell beeing two seuerall and distinct parts of Gods word. Now this former sentence is legall & must be vnderstood with an exception borrowed from the Gospel or the couenāt of grace made with Adam, and reuealed to him after his fall. The exception is this: Thou shalt certenly die whensoeuer thou eatest the forbidden fruite, except I doe further giue thee a means ⟨p. 7⟩of deliuerance from death, namely the seede of the woman to bruise the serpents head. Secondly it may be answered, that Adam and all his posteritie died, and that presently after his fall, in that his bodie was made mortall, and his soule became subiect to the curse of the law. And whereas God would not vtterly destroy Adam at the very first, but onely impose on him the beginnings of the first and second death; he did the same in great wisedome, that in his iustice he might make a way to mercie: which thing could not haue beene if Adam had perished.
The executioner of this punishment is he that doth impose and inflict the same on man, & that also is God himself, as he testifieth of himself in the prophet