A09461:24
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.
His warrant was good;1 for God had made a particular promise to David & his posterity after him, that so long as they feared God, & walked in his commandments, they should not want issue to sit upon the throne of the kingdom after them. Now Hezekiah at the time of the Prophets message, remembering what promise ⟨p. 22⟩God had made, and how he for his part had kept the condition thereof, in that he had walked before God with an upright heart, and had done that which was acceptable in his sight; he prayed against death, not so much because he feared the danger of it, but because he wanted issue. This prayer God accepted and heard, and he added fifteen years unto his days, & two years after gave him Manasseh.
His warrant was good;1 for God had made a particular promise to Dauid & his posteritie after him, that so long as they feared God, & walked in his commandemēts, they should not want issue to sit vpon the throne of the kingdome after them. Now Ezechiah at the time of the Prophets message, remembring what promise ⟨p. 22⟩God had made, and how he for his part had kept the cō dition thereof, in that hee had walked before God with an vpright heart, and had done that which was acceptable in his sight; hee praied against death, not so much because hee feared the danger of it, but because he wanted issue. This praier God accepted and heard, and he added fifteene yeares vnto his daies, & two yeares after gaue him Manasses.
- 11. Kin. 8.15.3
The fourth objection is, that those which have been reputed to be of the better sort of men, oftentimes have miserable ends: for some end their days despairing, some raving and blaspheming, some strangely tormented: it may seem therefore that the day of death is the day of greatest woe & misery. To this