A09461:49
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.
The second thing which we are to practise, that we may come to a serious meditation of ⟨p. 67⟩our own ends, is, to make prayer unto God that we might be enabled to resolve our selves of death continually.1 Thus David prayed, Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, let me know how long I have to live, And Moses,2 Lord teach me to number my days, that I may apply mine heart unto wisdom. It may be said, What need men pray to God that they may be able to number their days? can not they of themselves reckon a few years and days, that are able by art to measure the globe of the earth, and the spheres of heaven, & the quantities of the stars, with their longitudes, latitudes, altitudes, motions, & distances from the earth? No verily: For howsoever by a general speculation we think something of our ⟨p. 68⟩ends, yet unless the spirit of God be our school-master to teach us our duty, we shall never be able soundly to resolve our selves of the presence and speediness of death. And therefore let us pray with David and Moses that God would enlighten our minds with knowledge, and fill our hearts with his grace that we might rightly consider of death, and esteem of every day an hour as it were the day and hour of death.
The second thing which we are to practise, that wee may come to a serious meditation of ⟨p. 67⟩our owne ends, is, to make praier vnto God that we might bee inabled to resolue our selues of death continually.1 Thus Dauid praied, Lord make me to knowe mine ende, and the measure of my daies, let mee knowe how long I haue to liue, And Moses,2 Lord teach me to number my daies, that I may apply mine heart vnto wisedom. It may be said, What need mē pray to God that they may be able to number their daies? can not they of themselues reckon a fewe yeares and daies, that are able by arte to measure the globe of the earth, and the spheres of heauen, & the quantities of the starres, with their longitudes, latitudes, altitudes, motions, & distances from the earth? No verily: For howesoeuer by a generall speculation we thinke something of our