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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 procurer of death is man not God; in that man by his sin and disobedience did pull upon himself this punishment. Therefore the Lord in Oseah, O Israel, one hath destroyed thee, 1but in me is thine help. Against this it may be objected, that man was mortal in the estate of innocency before the fall. Answ. The frame and composition of mans body considered in it self was mortal, because it was made of water & earth & other elements which are of themselves alterable and changeable: yet if we respect that grace and blessing which God did vouchsafe mans body in his creation, it was unchangeable and immortal, and so by the same blessing should have continued, if man had not fallen: and man by his fall depriving himself of this ⟨p. 10⟩gift and blessing, became every way mortal.
The procurer of death is man not God; in that man by his sin and disobedience did pull vpon himselfe this punishment. Therefore the Lord in Oseah, O Israel, one hath destroyed thee, 1but in me is thine helpe. Against this it may be obiected, that mā was mortall in the estate of innocencie before the fall. Answ. The frame and composition of mans body considered in it selfe was mortall, because it was made of water & earth & other elements which are of thēselues alterable and changeable: yet if we respect that grace and blessing which God did vouchsafe mans bodie in his creation, it was vnchangeable and immortall, and so by the same blessing should haue continued, if man had not fallen: and man by his fall depriuing himselfe of this ⟨p. 10⟩gift and blessing, became euery way mortall.