A09461:76
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
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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,2 an house not made with hands, but eternal in heaven, which is unspeakable & immortal glory. ⟨p. 118⟩If a poor man should be commanded by a Prince to put off his torn and beggary garments, and in stead thereof to put on royal and costly robes, it would be a great rejoicing to his heart: oh then what joyful news must this be unto all repentant and sorrowful sinners, when the king of heaven and earth comes unto them by death and bids them lay down their bodies as ragged and patched garments, and prepare themselves to put on the princely robe of immortality? No tongue can be able to express the excellency of this most blessed and happy estate.
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 workes follow them. The author of truth that cannot lie hath spoken it. Now then let a man but throughly consider this, that death ioyned with a reformed life hath a promise of blessednes adioined vnto it, and it alone will be a sufficient meanes to stay the rage of our affections, and al inordinate feare of death: and the rather if we marke wherein this blessednesse consists. In death we are indeede thrust out of our olde dwelling places, namely these houses of clay & earthly tabernacles of our bodies, wherein we haue made long abode: but what is the ende? surely that liuing & dying in Christ, we might haue a building giuen of God, that is,