A09461:32
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.
Furthermore, this exceeding benefit comes by death, that it doth not only abolish the miseries which presently are upon us, but also prevent those which are to come. The righteous (saith the Prophet Isaiah) perisheth, 1and no man considereth it in his heart, and merciful men are taken away, and no man understandeth that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2Example of this we have in Josiah. Because (saith the Lord) thine heart did melt, and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, &c. behold therefore I will gather thee ⟨p. 39⟩to thy fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy grave in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And Paul saith, that among the Corinthians some were a sleep, that is,3 dead that they might not be condemned with the world.
Furthermore, this exceeding benefite comes by death, that it doth not only abolish the miseries which presently are vpō vs, but also preuēt those which are to come. The righteous (saith the Prophet Esay) perisheth, 1and no man considereth it in his heart, and mercifull men are taken away, and no man vnderstandeth that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come. 2Example of this we haue in Iosias. Because (saith the Lord) thine heart did melt, and thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, &c. beholde therefore I will gather thee ⟨p. 39⟩to thy fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy graue in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the euill which I will bring vpon this place. And Paul saith, that among the Corinthians some were a sleepe, that is,3