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A fruitful treatise and full of heavenly consolation against the fear of death Whereunto…A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto…
A fruitful treatise and full of heavenly consolation against the fear of death Whereunto are annexed certain sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life everlasting, and of the blessed state & felicity of the same. Gathered by that holy martyr of God, John Bradford.A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.
London : Perused corrected & augmented according to the original, & imprinted in Fletestrete near to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, ca. 1564London : Perused corrected & augmented according to the originall, & imprinted in Fletestrete neere to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, ca. 1564
¶ A treatise against the fear of death.¶ A treatise agaynst the feare of death.
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Secondly, consider the miseries of this life, that if so be the pleasures ⟨image 7⟩and commodities in it should move us to love it: yet that miseries 1might countervail and make us to take it as we should do: I mean, rather to desire to be loosed and dis••ssed hence, then otherwise. Look upon your bodies, & see in how many perils and daū gers you are. Your eyes are in danger of blindness and blerednes: your ears in danger of deafness: your mouth and tongue of cankers, toothache and dumbness: your head in danger of rheums & megrims: your throat in danger of hoarseness: your hands in danger of gouts & palsies. &c. But who is able to express the number of diseases, whereto mans body is in danger, seeing that some have written that more then ¶ ¶ ¶. diseases may happen unto ⟨image 7⟩man? I speak nothing of the hurt that may come to our bodies by prisons, venomous beasts, water, fire, horses, men. &c.2
Secondly, cōsider the miseries of this life, that if so be the pleasures ⟨image 7⟩and cōmodities in it shuld moue vs to loue it: yet yt miseries 1might counteruaile and make vs to take it as we shoulde doe: I meane, rather to desier to be losed and dis••ssed hence, then otherwise. Loke vpon your bodies, & se in howe many perils and daū gers you are. Your eyes are in daunger of blindnes and blerednes: your eares in danger of deaf nes: your mouthe and tongue of cankers, tothache and dumnes: your head in danger of rewmes & megrims: your throte in danger of horsenes: your handes in daunger of goutes & palseys. &c. But who is able to expresse the nūber of disseases, wherto mans body is in daunger, seynge that somme haue written yt more then ¶ ¶ ¶. diseases may happen vnto ⟨image 7⟩