A09461:54
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.
here we must be careful to reform two common errors. The first is, that a man enters into eternal life when he dies and not before; which is a flat untruth. Our Saviour Christ said to Zacheus, This day is salvation come to thy house: giving us to understand, that a man then begins to be saved, when God doth effectually ⟨p. 79⟩call him by the ministry of his Gospel. Whosoever then will be saved when he is dying & dead, must begin to be saved while he is now living. His salvation must begin in this life, that would come to salvation after this life: Verily, 1verily, saith Christ, he that heareth my word, and believeth in him that sent me, hath eternal life, namely, in this present life. The second error is, that howsoever a man live, if when he is dying he can lift up his his eyes, & say, Lord have mercy upon me, he is certainly saved. Behold a very fond & foolish conceit, that deceives many a man. It is all one as if an errand thief should thus reason with himself, and say, I will spend my days in robbing and stealing, I fear neither arraignment nor execution. For ⟨p. 80⟩at the very time when I am to be turned off from the ladder, if I do but call upon the judge I know I shall have my pardon. Behold a most dangerous and desperate course: and the very •ame is the practise of careless men in the matter of their salvation. For a man may die with Lord have mercy in his mouth, & perish eternally; except in this world he enter into the first degree of eternal life. For not every one that saith Lord, 2Lord, shall enter into heaven but he that doth the will of the father which is in heaven.
here we must be carefull to reforme two common errours. The first is, that a mā enters into eternall life when he dies and not before; which is a flatte vntrueth. Our Sauiour Christ said to Zacheus, This day is saluation come to thy house: giuing vs to vnderstand, that a man thē begins to be saued, when God doth effectually ⟨p. 79⟩call him by the ministery of his Gospel. Whosoeuer then will be saued when he is dying & dead, must begin to be saued while he is now liuing. His saluation must beginne in this life, that would come to saluation after this life: Verily,