A09461:68
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 circumstance is, ⟨p. 106⟩when the sick party must send for the Elders to instruct him and pray for him. And that is in the very first place of all before any other help be sought for. Where the Divine ends, there the Physician must begin: and it is a very preposterous course that the Divine should there begin where the Physician makes an end. For till help be had for the soul, and sin which is the root of sickness be cured, physic for the body is nothing. Therefore it is a thing much to be disliked, that in all places almost the Physician is first sent for, and comes in the beginning of the sickness, and the Minister comes when a man is half dead, and is then sent for oftentimes, when the sick party lies drawing on and gasping for breath, as though Ministers of the gospel ⟨p. 107⟩in these days were able to work miracles.
The second circumstance is, ⟨p. 106⟩when the sicke partie must send for the Elders to instruct him and pray for him. And that is in the very first place of al before any other helpe be sought for. Where the Diuine endes, there the Physitian must begin: and it is a very preposterous course that the Diuine should ther begin where the Physitian makes an ende. For till help be had for the soule, and sinne which is the root of sicknes be cured, physicke for the body is nothing. Therefore it is a thing much to be disliked, that in all places almost the Physitian is first sent for, and comes in the beginning of the sicknes, and the Minister comes when a man is half dead, and is then sent for oftentimes, when the sicke partie lies drawing on and gasping for breath, as though Ministers of the gospel ⟨p. 107⟩in these daies were able to worke miracles.
The second duty of the sick party is to confess his sins, as S. James saith,