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A sad thing to lose both soul and body at one and the same time. [ 447]
DUdithius relates a sad story of one Bochna a Woman, * 1.1 which had but two sons, and whilst she was walking with the one towards the River, she heard the o∣ther crying out,* 1.2 and hasting back, she found a knife sticking in his side, which killed him immediately; then she made haste to the other child, but he in her absence was fallen into the River and drowned, both lost at once: This is our case, every one of us hath two children, a soul and a body; a life temporal, a life eternal; What a heavy loss would it be to lose both these at once? yet such is the sad condition of many▪ that whilst they busie themselves to catch at the shadow, and to set up a rest for their souls here in this world, they lose both shadow and substance, soul and body, the rest of their souls here, and the true souls of their eternal rest hereafter, both together.