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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.
we must learn to reform our judgements of such as lie at the point ⟨p. 29⟩of death. The common opinion is, that if a man lie quietly and go away like a lamb (which in some diseases, as consumptions and such like, any man may do) then he goes straight to heaven: but if the violence of the disease stir up impatience, and cause in the party frantic behaviours, then men use to say, there is a judgement of God serving either to discover an hypocrite, or to plague a wicked man. But the truth is otherwise; for indeed a man may die like a lamb, and yet go to hell: and one dying in exceeding torments and strange behaviours of the body may go to heaven: & by the outward condition of any man ▪ either in life or death, we are not to judge of his estate before God.
wee must learne to reforme our iudgements of such as lie at the point ⟨p. 29⟩of death. The common opiniō is, that if a man lie quietly and goe away like a lambe (which in some diseases, as consumptions and such like, any man may do) then he goes straight to heauē: but if the violēce of the disease stirre vp impatience, and cause in the partie franticke behauiours, then men vse to say, there is a iudgement of God seruing either to discouer an hypocrite, or to plague a wicked man. But the truth is otherwise; for indeed a mā may die like a lamb, and yet goe to hell: and one dying in exceeding torments and strange behauiours of the body may go to heauē: & by the outward conditiō of any mā ▪ either in life or death, we are not to iudge of his estate before God.
The fourth objection is this: When a man is most near death, ⟨p. 30⟩then the devil is most busy in temptation: & the more men are assaulted by Satan, the more dā gerous and troublesome is their case. And therefore it may seem that the day of death is the worst day of all. Answ. The condition of Gods children in earth is twofold. Some are not tempted, & some are. Some I say are not tempted, as Simeon, who when he had seen Christ, brake forth and said,