A09461:65
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 I have occasion to mention a notorious fault that is very common in this age, even among such as have long lived in the bosom of the Church; and that is this: Men now adays are so far from renewing their faith and repentance, that when they lie sick and are drawing toward death, they must be catechised in the doctrine of faith and repentance, as if they had been but of late received into the Church. Whosoever will, but as occasion is offered, visit the sick, shall find this to be true which I say. What a shame is this, that when a man hath spent his life & ⟨p. 101⟩days in the church for the space of 20. or 30. or 40. years, he should at the very end of all & not before, begin to enquire, what faith & what repentance is, and how his soul might be saved? This one sin argues the great security of this age, & the great contempt of God and his word. Well, let all men hereafter in time to come, be warned to take heed of this exceeding negligence in matters of salvation, and to use all good means before-hand, that they may be able in sickness and in the time of death to put in practise the spiritual exercises of invocation and repentance.
Here I haue occasion to mention a notorious fault that is very common in this age, euen amōg such as haue long liued in the bosome of the Church; and that is this: Men now adaies are so far from renuing their faith and repentance, that when they lie sick and are drawing toward death, they must bee catechised in the doctrine of faith and repentance, as if they had beene but of late receiued into the Church. Whosoeuer wil, but as occasion is offered, visit the sick, shall finde this to be true which I say. What a shame is this, that whē a man hath spent his life & ⟨p. 101⟩daies in the church for the space of 20. or 30. or 40. yeares, hee should at the very ende of all & not before, begin to enquire, what faith & what repentance is, and how his soule might bee saued? This one sin argues the great securitie of this age, & the great contempt of God and his word. Wel, let al men hereafter in time to come, bee warned to take heede of this exceeding negligence in matters of saluation, and to vse all good means before-hand, that they may be able in sicknesse and in the time of death to put in practise the spirituall exercises of inuocation and repentance.