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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 duty of Ministers when they are dying is, as much as they can, to cast and provide for the continuance of the good estate of the Church over which they are placed. Consider the example of Peter: I will (saith he) endeavour always, 1that ye also may be able to have remembrance of these things after my departure. If this had bin well observed, there could not have bin such abundance of schisms, errors, and ⟨p. 145⟩heresies as hath been, and the Church of God could not have suffered so great havoc. But because men have had more care to maintain personal succession, then the right succession, which stands in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles: therefore wolves have come into the rooms of faithful teachers,2 & the Apostasy, of which Paul speaks, hath overspread the face of the Church.
The duty of Ministers when they are dying is, as much as they can, to cast and prouide for the continuance of the good estate of the Church ouer which they are placed. Consider the example of Peter: I will (saith he) indeauour alwaies, 1that yee also may be able to haue remembrance of these things after my departure. If this had bin wel obserued, there could not haue bin such aboundance of schismes, errours, and ⟨p. 145⟩heresies as hath beene, and the Church of God could not haue suffered so great hauocke. But because mē haue had more care to maintaine personal successiō, then the right succession, which standes in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles: therefore wolues haue come into the roomes of faithfull teachers,2 & the Apostasie, of which Paul speaks, hath ouerspread the face of the Church.