A09461:59
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.
Therefore to urge sick men unto it lying at the point of death, is to lay more burdens on them, then ever God appointed.
Therfore to vrge sicke men vnto it lying at the point of death, is to lay more burdens on thē, then euer God appointed.
And whereas they make it a necessary thing to receive the Eucharist in the time of sickness toward death, and that privately of the sick party alone, they have no warrant for their practise and opinion. For in the want of the sacrament there is no danger, but in the contempt: and the very contempt it self is a sin which may be pardoned, ⟨p. 89⟩if we repent. And there is no reason why we should think that sick men should be deprived of the comfort of the Lords supper, if they receive it not in death, because the fruit and efficacy of the Sacrament once received, is not to be restrained to the time of receiving, but it extends it self to the whole time of mans life afterward. Again, the supper of the Lord is no private action, but merely Ecclesiastical: and therefore to be celebrated in the meeting & assembly of Gods people; as our Saviour Christ prescribeth, when he saith,, Do ye this: and Paul in saying, When ye come together. 1But it is alleged that the Israelites did eat the Pascal lamb in their houses when they were in Egypt. Ans. The Israelites had then no liberty to make any public ⟨p. 90⟩meeting for that end: and God commanded that the Paschal Lamb should be eaten in all the houses of the Israelites at one & the same instant: & that in effect was as much as if it had bin public. Again, they allege a Canon of the Council of Nice; which decreeth,2 that men being about to die, must receive the Eucharist, & not a