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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.
Thus much of freedom from misery, which is the first benefit that comes by death, & the first steppe to life: now follows the second, which is, that death gives an entrance to the soul, that it may come into the presence of the everliving God, of Christ, and of all the Angels and Saints in heaven. The worthiness of this benefit makes the death of the righteous to be no death, but rather a blessing to be wished of all men. The consideration of this made Paul to say,1 I desire to ⟨p. 40⟩be dissolved: but what is the cause of this desire? that follows in the next words, namely that by his dissolution he might come to be with Christ. When the Queen of Sheba saw all Solomons wisdom, & the house that he had built, and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, & the order of his ministers, and their apparel, &c. she said, Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants which stand ever before thee and hear thy wisdom:2 much more then may we say, that they are ten thousand fold happy which stand not in the presence of an earthly king, but before the King of kings, the Lord of heaven and earth; and at his right hand enjoy pleasures for evermore. Moses hath bin renowned in all ages for this, that God vouchsafed him but ⟨p. 41⟩so much favour as to see his hinder parts at his request; ô then, what happiness is this to see the glory and majesty of God face to face, and to have eternal fellowship with God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, and the holy Ghost our comforter, and to live with the blessed Saints & Angels in heaven for ever.
Thus much of freedome from miserie, which is the first benefit that comes by death, & the first steppe to life: now followes the second, which is, that death giues an entrance to the soule, that it may come into the presence of the euerliuing God, of Christ, and of all the Angels and Saints in heauen. The worthinesse of this benefite makes the death of the righteous to bee no death, but rather a blessing to bee wished of all men. The consideration of this made Paul to say,1