A09461:43
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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Wherefore it is a thing greatly to be wished, that men would repent & prepare themselves to die in the time of health before the day of death or sickness come. Lastly, it is alleged that one of the thieves repented upon the cross. Ans. The thief was called after the eleventh hour at the point of the twelfth, when he was now dying and drawing on: Therefore his conversion was altogether miraculous and extraordinary: and there was a special reason why Christ would ⟨p. 60⟩have him to be called then, that while he was in suffering he might show forth the virtue of his passion; that all which saw the one, might also acknowledge the other. Now it is not good for men to make an ordinary rule of an extraordinary example.
Wherefore it is a thing greatly to be wished, that men would repent & prepare themselues to die in the time of health before the day of death or sicknesse come. Lastly, it is alleadged that one of the theeues repented vpon the crosse. Ans. The thiefe was called after the eleuenth houre at the point of the twelfth, when he was now dying and drawing on: Therefore his conuersion was altogether miraculous and extraordinarie: and there was a speciall reasō why Christ would ⟨p. 60⟩haue him to be called then, that while he was in suffering he might shew forth the vertue of his passion; that all which saw the one, might also acknowledge the other. Now it is not good for men to make an ordinarie rule of an extraordinarie example.
Thus then this point being manifest, that a general preparation must be made, let us now see in what manner it must be done. And for the right doing of it, five duties must be practised in the course of our lives, The first is the meditation of death in the life time, for the life of a Christian is nothing else but a meditation of death. A notable practise hereof we have in the example of Joseph of Arimathea, who made his tomb in his life time in the middest of his ⟨p. 61⟩