The sycke mans salue VVherin the faithfull christians may learne both how to behaue them selues paciently and thankefully, in the tyme of sickenes, and also vertuously to dispose their temporall goodes, and finally to prepare them selues gladly and godly to die. Made and newly recognised by Maister Tho. Becon. 1561.

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The sycke mans salue VVherin the faithfull christians may learne both how to behaue them selues paciently and thankefully, in the tyme of sickenes, and also vertuously to dispose their temporall goodes, and finally to prepare them selues gladly and godly to die. Made and newly recognised by Maister Tho. Becon. 1561.
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Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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[1561]]
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Suffering -- Early works to 1800.
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"The sycke mans salue VVherin the faithfull christians may learne both how to behaue them selues paciently and thankefully, in the tyme of sickenes, and also vertuously to dispose their temporall goodes, and finally to prepare them selues gladly and godly to die. Made and newly recognised by Maister Tho. Becon. 1561." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07163.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.

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A PLENTIFVL table conteyning all the principal matters of this worke for the spedier finding of the same.

A
ADā cause why we all perished.
300
Amos ye Prophet killed.
317
Admonishions, profiteth.
226
Against the fear of death remedies
313
Against the stinges of death.
316
B
Bankettinge, chyldren ought to beware.
212
Baptisme.
418
Belefe, what it is.
444
Belefe in hart.
418
Body committed vnto the earth.
136
Bodies shal rise immor∣tall.
137
Bodies of the faithfull, ought not to be vylye handled.
173
Brasen Serpent.
76
Burialles.
173
C
Call continually on the Lorde.
45
Cayin repented, but lac∣ked faith.
378
Chaunge lead for syl. uer.
323
Cherefull geuer.
40
Children fearing God. he will not leaue them comfortles.
270
Children ought to be∣ware of il cōpany.
208
Childrē must beware of swearing.
209
Children must loue and help their mothers
211
Christ author of our sal∣uation.
154
Christ prayed for an ha∣bitation for vs.
159
Christ our phisitiō.
385
Christ hath reconciled vs.
391
Christ a sauiour for al ages.
394
Christ saueth vs frely.
406
To Christ al thinges e subiect.
234
Christes woundes

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Christes wordes healeth our woundes.
414
Christes alter was the crosse.
422
Christ ouercame Sathā for vs.
337
Christ the head corner stone.
353
Christe fulfilled the lawe for vs.
367
Christ put away ye cause of hatred.
369
Christ hath put out the handwriting.
idem
Christ hath payde oure debt.
570
Christe the Lorde of all faithfull.
232
Christ the anointed.
233
Christ our Lord.
234
Christes humanite.
236
Christ a sacrifice for sinnes.
242
Christes death hath con∣quered Sathan.
249
Christes going down to hell.
idem
Christes resurrectiō.
250
Christes assention.
251
Christ a sufficient media∣tour.
253
Christ the mighty Sam¦son.
254
Christ geueth giftes vn∣to men.
256
Christ ascended to prepa∣re a place for vs.
257
Christe taken vp in a cloude.
258
Christ comming to iud∣gement.
259
Christ wrought all thin∣ges in his humanitie for vs.
260
Christes bloud washeth cleane our sinnes.
88
Christ the true Samari∣taine.
103
Christ a louing Phisi∣tion.
105
Christ submitted his will.
121
Christ forgeueth both the faulte and payne.
284
Christes churche lynked together.
269
Christ gaue him selfe for his churche.
282
Christ disciple, who?
23
Christiā, why he feareth not death.
287
Christiās ought to helpe scholers.
144
Churche or Congrega∣tion.
268
Communion
172

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Complaint of the wyc∣ked.
58
Comfort to them that calleth vpon God.
29
Crosse of tribulatiō.
17
Conscience quiet, how?
101
Comfortable calling of synners.
388
Conscience at rest.
128
Confession of synnes vn¦to God.
375
Correctiō in this world
54
D
Daniel preserued by prryer.
111
Dauid reioysed not in him selfe.
50
Dauid mourned and fa¦sted for his sonne.
162
Death, gate to euerla∣sting lyfe.
304
Death a chaungyng to a better lyfe.
308
Death a passage.
158
Death of the righte∣ous.
67
Debters forgeuen.
143
Debtes.
12.14
Departed ar not lost.
157
Desire of prayer.
426
Doctrine of Papistes after this lyfe.
194
Doubting faith obtey∣neth no promise.
439
Dutie of good seruaūts
225
E
Eldest sonne.
138.139
Esay sawne in sonder.
327
Ezechias ••••ued .xv. yere more.
110
Exhortation to the sick
46.449
Executours charge
169
Examples of olde we∣men,
219
F
Fallen on slepe,
157
Fatherles childrē what they ought to do,
215 216, 207
Faith,
416, 334
Faith and prayer, sure armours,
344
Faith in the sure promy¦ses of God,
377
Faith maketh vs the sonnes of God,
380
Faith the rote of all ver¦tues,
idem.
Fayth rycher then all treasures,
380
Faith yt is vnshakē
443

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Faithfull shal haue pos∣session in the kingdome▪
179.
Faithfull rewarded and vnfaithfull.
180.
Faithful belefe neuer di¦eth.
89.
Flesh lusteth againste the spirite.
15.
Fyry Serpent.
335.
G
God loueth where he chastiseth.
14.
God woundeth and ma¦keth whole.
21.
God maketh a way out in temptacion.
21.27
God a louing father.
27
God helpeth in al nedes
82.30.
God trieth his, how.
30
God wrought wonder∣fully for Ioseph.
31.
God gaue quietnes vn∣to Dauid after his stormes.
32.
God restoreth vs after his temptaion.
33.
God neuer forsaketh his.
38.
God present to our sick∣nes.
46
God suffereth the wyc. ked to florish.
58.
God not present, where the crosse is absent.
61
God taketh not his mer¦cy from his.
70
God, whē he repenteth?
71
God poureth out his blessing, when we sease to synne.
72
God turneth his wrath
76
God why he punisheth.
74
God hath no pleasure in the death of a syn.
94
God commaundeth to call to him in our trou∣ble.
108
God hath respect to the poore.
109
God heareth harty pray¦ers.
idem.
God suffereth vs not to be tempted aboue oure strength.
idem.
God present in trouble.
11.
God neuer forsaketh thē that trust in him.
114
Goodes of the syck how to be disposed before death.
123.133

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God tēdreth our soules health,
117
god forgeueth frely,
126
Gd heareth the prayer of the humble.
129
Go a father, a husband vnto the faithful wy∣dowe,
202.138
God forgeueth both the faut and paine,
176
God the father,
227
God doeth what his ple¦sure is,
228
God maker of heauen & earth.
idem,
God the sonne,
231
God the holy ghost,
261
God the holy ghost quic¦neth al thinges,
idem
God the holy ghost ma∣keth vs newe vessels
idem,
God the holy ghost, tea∣heth all ye faithful.
261
God the father, God the sonne, God the Holye Ghost.
263
Gods wrath terrible to conscience.
330
Gods worde driueth a∣way Sathan.
342
Gods word heleth.
344
God casteth downe and setteth vp,
351
God bringeth oute of trouble.
358
God apointeth no tyme of helpe.
393
God a father of mercies
401
God delighteth in com∣passion,
285
Gold and Siluer.
323
H
Harte stony,
375
Harte circumcised,
95
Harken vnto God,
409
Hearīg gods word.
423
Heathen haue no hope,
161
Heathē wyshed eternal ioye.
idem.
Holy men tempted,
95.
Houshold of God.
97
I
Iames slayne with the sworde,
idem
Iohn baptist beheaded,
318
Iob a faithfull souldi∣our,
37
Iob in him selfe same but synne.
52
Ieremy stoned▪
317
Ioy commeth after hea¦uynes,

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Ioye when our brethrē departe in the faithe▪
152, 161, 154
Ioies vnspekeable,
200
Ioie in heauen when a synner repenteth,
104
Iudas repented but had no faith,
378
Iewes murmuring.
75
Iewes repented,
idem
Iewes beleue the im∣mortalitie of, &c.
307
K
Kingdome of God mete for who?
24
Knowing one an other after this lyfe.
326
L
Labour and not loitour
396
Labour to winne Crist
411
Lawe maketh no man perfect.
126
law an heuy burthē,
363
Lazarus gods frēd,
20
Lordes comminge vn∣knowen▪
4
Lyfe frayle and transy∣tory,
2
Lyfe vncertayne,
3
Liue wel & die wel.
42
Lyfe ended our Ioy be¦gynne.
196
Lye foloweth death,
7
M
Man hath but a shorte tyme,
1
Man hartye, howe?
5
Man blest whome God punisheth,
21
Man not pure in the sight of God.
48
Man an whole lompe of synne,
49
Manasses an Idolater
77
Manrsses bounde with chaynes,
79
Manasses repēteth,
80
Manasses prayer,
25
Manasses his sinnes in numerable,
399
Martirs by diuers wai¦es put to death.
319
Maria magdalene a gre¦uous synner.
387
Mariage forbidē ought not to be,
203
Maidens that be goely, ought to be preferred before ryches.
23
Maids ought to bewar of naughty packs,
217
Mens willes ought to

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geue place,
118
Men kdowen by theyr workes,
190
men ar tried faithful,
26
Mercye vnto the poore deliuereth from synne,
213
Ministers.
150
Monthmyndes,
178
mothers ought to bring vp theyr children in ye feare of God.
205
mothers a care for their chyldren.
139
Mourning gowns.
151

N

The Name of Iesus, howe all knees bowe therto.
11

O

One oblation of Christe hath made vs pericte.
177

P

Papistes, ennemies to ye crosse of Christ.
176
Papistes alledge scrip∣tures.
429
Papistes a kingdome of lyes.
430
Papistes woulde haue vs doubte in our salua¦tion.
34
Papysticall scholinge.
440
Peter repented and be∣leued.
378
Predestination▪
415
People holpē here.
148
People desyrous to ha∣ue knowledge.
149
Plages ceaseth.
81
Pleasure not the waye to heauen.
23
Pleasures of the wyc∣ked.
57
Praiers ought to be ma¦de fo, whome?
149
Praier for the syck.
116 131.150.295.341.451
Prayer theffect
138
Promyses of God com∣forteth.
354
Psalmes of thancks for them taat be departed.
162
Publican humbled him selfe.
387
Punished in this world why?
55
Purgatory rakers
146

R

Remedies agaynste thuught taking.
320 224
Against desperatiō.
229

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Against temptations of Sathan.
331
Agaynst the lawes curse.
361
Agaynst synne.
372
Agaynst want of meri∣tes▪
403
Repētaunce,
415.374.
It obteineth mercy
399
It commeth by prea∣ching.
150
Reward of synne.
57
Resurrection of the bo∣dy.
287.257
Riche gloton.
19
Riotous sonne repen∣teth.
91

S

Satan tempted diuers and many wayes.
360
Satan moste busiest at our laste ende.
332
Sathan ouercome by prayer,
339
Schollerslare to be hol∣pen.
143
Scriptures calleth vs to repentaunce,
190
Seace frō labours.
152
Seke the Lorde whyle he may be found.
185
Seruaunts ought not to be forgotten that ser¦ue well.
221
Seruauntes,
141
Sermons to be prea∣ched.
148
Sickmans wyll,
135
Sicke man taketh his leue,
292
Sycke ought to geue thancks to God
43
Scripture sheweth vs the great mercies of God,
84
Sycke in sinne what to do?
105
Sicke visited, a godlye deed,
8
Sycke what to be lear∣ned.
9
Sycke comforted, how
idem,
Sycke sone disquieted.
294
Syck exhorted willing¦ly to dye.
198
Sickmans exhortation vnto his wyfe,
200
Sickmans, exhortation to his children,
206
Syckmans exhortation to his sonne,
210
Syckmās exhortatiō to his daughters.
217
Sickmans exhortation

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to his seruaunts.
220
Syckmans fayth,
227
Sinnes a messenger of death,
131
Sicknes irksome to mā
10
Sycknes taketh away ioye.
13
Sycknes, no token of Gods anger,
20
Synnes forgeuen.
283
Synnes forgeuen for Christes sake,
286
Syngyng,
171
Slepe not in death,
345
Soule yelded into the handes of God
136
Steuē stoned to death.
138

T

Thersians mourn whē theyr childrē are borne
165
The thefe found mercy
100
They that cry in trou∣ble are holpen.
113
Things happen for the best, to the pacient,
36
Toby euer feared God.
39
Toby full of good wor∣kes.
idem,
Toby an example to vs
40
Toby content to suffer the plague.
41
Trouble bryngeth vn∣derstandidg,
72
Tromperies for to fede theyr bellyes,
178
Trust in Christes pro∣myses and thou shalt not dye,
147
Trust of the life to come
168
The tree as it falleth fo it lyeth,
191

W

Water of lyfe,
481
Wemen wept for christ
169
Wyfe of the sycke.
137
A wyfe discrete is the gyft of God.
214
Wycked lyfe to the rio∣tous sonne,
91
Wycked sonne repēteth
idem,
Wicked sonne cōfesseth his faultes,
92
Wicked sonne furgeuen
93
Wicked people receyue payne
290
wicked a terrible end
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Wicked seruauntes re∣warded, how?
186
Wydowes howe they ought to mary,
204
Wounded man spoyled.
101
Worldly frendship slip∣pery,
325
Worldlinges lyue all in pleasure,
18.24
Worldly ioye,
25
Workers in the vyne∣yarde,
359
Worke whyle it is day,
186.187

Y

Riotous myndes,
175
Youth ought to beware of whordome,
213
Youth muste take hede how they mary.
idem,
Yong wemen ought to be obedient to theyr husbandes,
218
Yong wemē shold bring vp theyr chyldren in norture,
idem
Yong women ought to be no gudders▪
291
Yong women comly a∣pareled.
idem.
FINIS.
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