A09461:61
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.
And yet nevertheless here is no footing for private communions. For the Eucharist was only then sent, when the rest of the church did openly communicate; & such as were then absent only by reason of sickness, & desired to be partakers of ⟨p. 92⟩that blessed communion, were to be reputed as present. Lastly, it is objected, that it was the manner of men & women in former times ato carry part of the sacrament home to their houses, and to reserve it till the time of necessity, as the time of sickness, and such like. Ans. The reservation of the sacrament was but a superstitious practise, though it be ancient. For out of the administration, that is, before it begin, & after it is ended, the sacrament ceaseth to be a sacrament, & the elements to be elements. As for the practise of them that used to cram the Eucharist into the mouth of them that were diseased,2 it is not only superstitious but also very absurd.
And yet neuerthelesse here is no footing for priuate communions. For the Eucharist was only then sent, when the rest of the church did openly cōmunicate; & such as were thē absēt only by reasō of sicknes, & desired to be partakers of ⟨p. 92⟩that blessed communion, were to be reputed as present. Lastly, it is obiected, that it was the māner of men & women in former times ato cary part of the sacramēt home to their houses, and to reserue it till the time of necessitie, as the time of sicknes, and such like. Ans. The reseruation of the sacrament was but a superstitious practise, though it be ancient. For out of the administratiō, that is, before it begin, & after it is ended, the sacramēt ceaseth to be a sacrament, & the elements to be elements. As for the practise of thē that vsed to cramme the Eucharist into the mouth of them that were diseased,2 it is not onely superstitious but also very aburd.