A09461:75
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.
Mark here how Joseph is armed against impatience and grief & discontentment by the very consideration of gods providence: and so in the same man ner shall we be confirmed against all fears and sorrows, and say with David,1 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints: if this persuasion be once settled in our hearts, that all things in sickness & death come to pass unto us by the providence of god, who turns all things to the good of them that love him.
Marke here how Ioseph is armed against impatience and griefe & discontentment by the very consideration of gods prouidence: and so in the same mā ner shall we be cōfirmed against all feares and sorrowes, and say with Dauid,1 Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints: if this perswasion be once setled in our hearts, that all things in sicknes & death come to passe vnto vs by the prouidence of god, who turnes all things to the good of them that loue him.
The second meditation is to be borrowed from the excellent promise that God hath made to the death of the righteous: which is, Blessed are they that die in the Lord, 1for they rest from their ⟨p. 117⟩labours, and their works follow them. The author of truth that cannot lie hath spoken it. Now then let a man but throughly consider this, that death joined with a reformed life hath a promise of blessedness adjoined unto it, and it alone will be a sufficient means to stay the rage of our affections, and all inordinate fear of death: and the rather if we mark wherein this blessedness consists. In death we are indeed thrust out of our old dwelling places, namely these houses of clay & earthly tabernacles of our bodies, wherein we have made long abode: but what is the end? surely that living & dying in Christ, we might have a building given of God, that is,