A09461:36
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 we must remember ⟨p. 46⟩that by the virtue of this con junction, shall the dead body, be it rotten, burned, devoured, or howsoever consumed, at the day of judgment rise to eternal glory. In the winter season trees remain without fruit or leaves, and being beaten with wind & weather appear to the eye as if they were rotten trees; yet when the spring-time comes again, they bring forth as before, buds and blossoms, leaves and fruit: the reason is because the body, grains, & arms of the tree are all joined to the root, where lies the sap in the winter season, and whence by means of this conjunction it is derived to all the parts of the tree in the spring-time: Even so the bodies of men have their winter also, in which they are turned to dust, & so remain for the space of many thousand ⟨p. 47⟩years, yet in the day of judgement by means of that mystical conjunction with Christ, shall divine and quickening virtue stream thence to all the bodies of the elect to cause them to live again, and that to life eternal. But some will say, that the wicked also rise again. Ans. They do so indeed, but not by the same cause, for they rise by the power of Christ as he is a judge to condemn them: whereas the godly rise again by the virtue of Christs resurrection, whereof they are partakers by means of that blessed and indissoluble conjunction which they have with Christ. And the bodies of the elect though they consume never so much in the grave, yet are they still in Gods favour and in the covenant of grace: to which, because they have right being ⟨p. 48⟩dead they shall not remain so for ever, but shall rise to glory at the last judgement. Therefore the rotting of the body is nothing in respect, and the death of the body no death. And therefore also death in the old & new testament is made but a sleep, & the grave a bed, whereof the like was never seen; wherein a man may rest, nothing at all troubled with dreams or fantasies, and whence he shall rise no more subject to weakness or sickness, but presently be translated to eternal glory. By this then which hath been said, it appears that the death of the righteous is a second degree to everlasting happiness.
Furthermore we must remē ber ⟨p. 46⟩