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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.
Thus it appears in part what death is: yet for the better clearing of this point, we are to consider the difference of the death of a man and of a beast. The death of a beast is the total and final abolishment of the whole creature: for the body is resolved to his first matter, and the soul arising of the temperature of the body vanisheth to nothing. But in the death of a man it is otherwise. For though the body for a time be resolved to dust, yet must it rise again in the last judgement and become immortal: and as for the soul, it subsisteth by it self out of the body and is immortal. And this being so, it may be demaū dead how the soul can die the second death? Ans. The soul ⟨p. 11⟩dies, not because it is utterly abolished, but because it is as though it were not, & it ceaseth to be in respect of righteousness and fellowship with God. And indeed this is the death of all deaths, when the creature hath subsisting and being, and yet for all that, is deprived of all comfortable fellowship with God.
Thus it appeares in part what death is: yet for the better clearing of this point, we are to consider the difference of the death of a man and of a beast. The death of a beast is the total and finall abolishment of the whole creature: for the body is resolued to his first matter, and the soule arising of the temperature of the bodie vanisheth to nothing. But in the death of a man it is otherwise. For though the bodie for a time bee resolued to dust, yet must it rise againe in the last iudgement and become immortall: and as for the soule, it subsisteth by it selfe out of the body and is immortall. And this being so, it may be demaū ded how the soule can die the second death? Ans. The soule ⟨p. 11⟩dies, not because it is vtterly abolished, but because it is as though it were not, & it ceaseth to be in respect of righteousnes and fellowship with God. And indeede this is the death of all deaths, when the creature hath subsisting and beeing, and yet for all that, is depriued of al cō fortable fellowship with God.