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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 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,1 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, &c. fore-signifying no doubt, that he should end his days in all manner of peace. As for them which are tempted, though their case be very troublesome and perplexed, yet their salvation is not further off, by reason of the violence & extremity of temptation. For God is then present by the unspeakable comfort of ⟨p. 31⟩his spirit, & when we are most weak, he is most strong in us; because his manner is to show his power in weakness. And for this cause, even in the time of death the devil receives the greatest foil, when he looks for the greatest victory.
The fourth obiection is this: Whē a man is most nere death, ⟨p. 30⟩then the diuell is most busie in temptatiō: & the more men are assaulted by Satan, the more dā gerous and troublesome is their case. And therfore it may seeme that the day of death is the worst day of all. Answ. The condition of Gods childrē 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 saide,1 Lord, now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace, &c. fore-signifying no doubt, that hee should end his daies in all maner of peace. As for them which are tēpted, though their case bee very troublesome and perplexed, yet their saluation is not further off, by reasō of the violence & extremity of temptation. For God is then present by the vnspeakable comfort of ⟨p. 31⟩