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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 kinds of death are two, as the kinds of life are; bodily ⟨p. 12⟩and spiritual. Bodily death is nothing else but the separation of the soul from the body, as bodily life is the conjunction of body and soul: and this death is called the first, because in respect of time it goes before the second. Spiritual death is the separation of the whole man both in body and soul from the gracious fellowship of God. Of these twain the first is but an entrance to death, and the second is the accomplishment of it. For as the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul, and his spirit is the soul of our souls, and the want of fellowship with him, brings nothing but the endless and unspeakable horrors and pangs of death.
The kindes of death are two, as the kindes of life are; bodily ⟨p. 12⟩and spirituall. Bodily death is nothing else but the separation of the soule from the body, as bodily life is the conujnction of bodie and soule: and this death is called the first, because in respect of time it goes before the second. Spiritual death is the separatiō of the whole man both in body and soule from the gratious fellowshippe of God. Of these twaine the first is but an entrance to death, and the second is the accomplishment of it. For as the soule is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soule, and his spirit is the soule of our soules, and the want of fellowship with him, brings nothing but the endles and vnspeakable horrours and pangs of death.
Again, spiritual death hath three distinct and several degrees. ⟨p. 13⟩The first is, when a man that is alive in respect of temporal life, lies dead in sin. Of this degree Paul speaks, when he saith,1 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. And this is the case of all men by nature, who are children of wrath, and dead in sins and trespasses.