A09461:93
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.
as though the eldest were borne to be gentlemen, & younger brethren borne to bear the wallet. Yet in equity the eldest must have more then any; even because he is the eldest, & because stocks and families in their persons are to be maintained; and because there must always be some that must be fit to do ⟨p. 151⟩special service in the peace of the common weal, or in the time of war: which could not be, if goods should be equally parted to all. The fourth and last rule is, that no Will is of force till the testator be dead,1 for so long as he is alive, he may alter and change it. These rules must be remembered, because they are recorded in Scripture: the opening of other points & circumstances belongeth to the profession of the law.
as though the eldest were borne to be gentlemen, & yonger brethren borne to beare the wallet. Yet in equitie the eldest must haue more then any; euen because he is the eldest, & because stocks and families in their persons are to be maintained; and because there must alwaies be some that must be fitte to doe ⟨p. 151⟩speciall seruice in the peace of the common weale, or in the time of warre: which could not be, if goods should be equally parted to al. The fourth and last rule is, that no Will is of force till the testatour be dead,1 for so long as he is aliue, he may alter and change it. These rules must be remembred, because they are recorded in Scripture: the opening of other points & circumstances belongeth to the profession of the law.
The second duty of the master of the family, concerneth the souls of such as be under his government: and that is to give charge to them, that they learn, believe, and obey the true religion, that is, the doctrine of Salvation set down in the writings of the Prophets & Apostles. The Lord himself con mends