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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 sixth objection is this. Violent & sudden death is a grievous curse, & of all evils which befall man in this life, none is so terrible: therefore it may seem that the day of sudden death is most miserable. Ans. It is true indeed that sudden death is a curse & grievous judgement of God, and therefore not without cause feared of men in the world: yet all things considered, we ought more to be afraid of an impenitent and evil life, then of sudden death. For though it be evil, as death it self in his own ⟨p. 32⟩nature is; yet we must not think it to be simply evil: because it is not evil to all men, nor in all respects evil. I say it is not evil to all men, considering that no kind of death is evil or a curse unto them that are in Christ, who are freed from the whole curse of the law. And therefore the holy Ghost saith,1 Blessed are they that die in the Lord: for they rest from their labours: whereby is signified that they which depart this life, being members of Christ, enter into everlasting happiness; of what death so ever they die, yea though it be sudden death. Again I say, that sudden death is not evil in all respects; for it is not evil, because it is sudden, but because it commonly takes men unprepared, and by that means makes the day of death a black day, ⟨p. 33⟩and as it were a very speedy down-fall to the gulf of hell. Otherwise if a man be ready & prepared to die, sudden death is in effect no death, but a quick and speedy entrance to eternal life.
The sixt obiection is this. Violent & sudden death is a grieuous curse, & of all euills which befal man in this life, none is so terrible: therefore it may seeme that the day of sudden death is most miserable. Ans. It is true indeede that sudden death is a curse & grieuous iudgement of God, and therefore not without cause feared of mē in the world: yet all things considered, wee ought more to be afraid of an impenitent and euil life, then of sudden death. For though it be euill, as death it selfe in his own ⟨p. 32⟩nature is; yet we must not think it to be simply euil: because it is not euill to al men, nor in all respects euill. I say it is not euill to all men, considering that no kinde of death is euill or a curse vnto them that are in Christ, who are freed from the whole curse of the law. And therefore the holy Ghost saith,