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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 second objection is taken from the testimonies of Scripture. Death is the wages of sin, Rom. 6.23. it is an enemy of Christ, 1. Cor. 15. and the curse of the law. Hence it seems to follow that in and by death, men receive their wages & payment for their sins: that the day of death is the doleful day in ⟨p. 17⟩which the enemy prevails against us: that he which dieth is cursed. Answ. We must distinguish of death: it must be considered two ways; first, as it is by it self in his own nature: secondly, as it is altered & changed by Christ. Now death by it self considered, is indeed the wages of sin, an enemy of Christ, & of all his members, & the curse of the law, yea the very suburbs and the gates of hell: yet in the second respect, it is not so. For by the virtue of the death of Christ, it ceaseth to be a plague or punishment, and of a curse it is made a blessing, and is become unto us a passage or middle-way between this life and eternal life, and as it were a little wicket or door whereby we pass out of this world and enter into heaven. And in this respect ⟨p. 18⟩the saying of Solomon is most true. For in the day of birth, men are borne & brought forth into the vale of misery, but afterward when they go hence having death altered unto them by the death of Christ, they enter into eternal joy and happiness with all the Saints of God for ever.
The second obiection is taken from the testimonies of Scripture. Death is ths wages of sinne, Rom. 6.23. it is an enemy of Christ, 1. Cor. 15. and the curse of the lawe. Hence it seemes to followe that in and by death, men receiue their wages & paiment for their sinnes: that the day of death is the dolefull day in ⟨p. 17⟩which the enemie preuailes against vs: that he which dieth is cursed. Answ. We must distinguish of death: it must be considered two waies; first, as it is by it selfe in his own nature: secōdly, as it is altered & changed by Christ. Now death by it selfe considered, is indeed the wages of sinne, an enemie of Christ, & of all his members, & the curse of the law, yea the very suburbs and the gates of hell: yet in the second respect, it is not so. For by the vertue of the death of Christ, it ceaseth to be a plague or punishment, and of a curse it is made a blessing, and is become vnto vs a passage or middle-way betweene this life and eternall life, and as it were a litle wicket or doore whereby wee passe out of this world and enter into heauen. And in this respect