A09461:77
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 third meditation is borrowed from the estate of all them that are in Christ, whether living or dying. He that dieth believing in Christ dieth not ⟨p. 119⟩forth of Christ but in him, having both his body and soul really coupled to Christ according to the tenor of the covenant of grace: and though after death body & soul be severed one from another, yet neither of them are severed or disjoined from Christ. The conjunction which is once begun in this life remains eternally. And therefore though the soul go from the body, & the body it self rot in the grave, yet both are still in Christ, both in the covenant, both in the favour of god as before death, & both shall again be joined together; the body by the virtue of the former conjunction being raised to eternal life. Indeed if this union with Christ were dissolved as the conjunction of body & soul is, it might be sone matter of discomfort and fear, but the ⟨p. 120⟩foundation and substance of our mystical conjunction with Christ both in respect of our bodies and souls enduring for ever, must needs be a matter of exceeding joy and comfort.
The third meditation is borrowed from the estate of all thē that are in Christ, whether liuing or dying. He that dieth beleeuing in Christ dieth not ⟨p. 119⟩forth of Christ but in him, hauing both his body and soule really coupled to Christ according to the tenour of the couenant of grace: and though after death body & soule be seuered one from another, yet neither of thē are seuered or disioyned from Christ. The coniunction which is once begun in this life remaines eternally. And therefore though the soule goe from the body, & the body it selfe rot in the graue, yet both are still in Christ, both in the couenant, both in the fauour of god as before death, & both shal again be ioined togither; the body by the vertu of the former cōiunctiō being raised to eternall life. Indeed if this vniō with Christ were dissolued as the cōiunctiō of body & soule is, it might be sōe matter of discomfort and feare, but the ⟨p. 120⟩foundation and substance of our mysticall coniunction with Christ both in respect of our bodies and soules enduring for euer, must needes be a matter of exceeding ioy and comfort.