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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
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Thus now the third point is manifest, namely, in what respects death is more excellent than life. It may be, here the mind of man unsatisfied will yet further reply & say, that howsoever in death the souls of men enter into heaven, yet their bodies, though they have bin tenderly kept for meat, drink, & apparel; and have slept many a night in beds of down, must lie in dark & loathsome graves, & there be wasted & consumed with worms. ⟨p. 42⟩Ans. All this is true indeed, but all is nothing: if so be it we will but consider aright of our graves as we ought. We must not judge of our graves, as they appear to the bodily eye, but we must look upon them by the eye of faith, and consider them as they are altered and changed by the death and burial of Christ, who having vanquished death upon the cross, pursued him afterward to his own wen, and foiled him there, & deprived him of his power: and by this means Christ in his own death hath buried our death, and by the virtue of his burial, as with sweet incense, hath sweetened and perfumed our graves, and made them of stinking & loathsome cabins,1 to become princely palaces, and beds of most sweet & happy rest, far ⟨p. 43⟩more excellent then beds of down.
Thus now the third point is manifest, namely, in what respects death is more excellent thē life. It may be, here the mind of mā vnsatisfied wil yet further reply & say, that howsoeuer in death the soules of men enter into heauen, yet their bodies, though they haue bin tenderly kept for meat, drink, & apparel; and haue slept many a night in beds of doune, must lie in dark & loathsome graues, & there be wasted & cōsumed with worms. ⟨p. 42⟩Ans. All this is true indeede, but all is nothing: if so be it we will but cōsider aright of our graues as we ought. We must not iudge of our graues, as they appeare to the bodily eye, but we must looke vpon them by the eye of faith, and consider them as they are altered and changed by the death and burial of Christ, who hauing vanquished death vpon the crosse, pursued him afterward to his owne wen, and foyled him there, & depriued him of his power: and by this means Christ in his owne death hath buried our death, and by the vertue of his buriall, as with sweete incense, hath sweetened and perfumed our graues, and made thē of stinking & loathsome cabbines,