God doth visit vs diuers waies.
1. Sometime by losse of worldly wealth, Goods,
The safegard of the soule Declaring sundry soueraigne salues tending to the comfort and saluation of the same: very necessarie to bee learned and obserued of all men, and at all times, but chiefely in the extremitie of sicknes, and grieuous pangs of death. Composed by Lawrence Bankes, preacher of the word of God: and parson of Staunton, in the county of Glocester.
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- The safegard of the soule Declaring sundry soueraigne salues tending to the comfort and saluation of the same: very necessarie to bee learned and obserued of all men, and at all times, but chiefely in the extremitie of sicknes, and grieuous pangs of death. Composed by Lawrence Bankes, preacher of the word of God: and parson of Staunton, in the county of Glocester.
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- Bankes, Lawrence.
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- 1619.
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"The safegard of the soule Declaring sundry soueraigne salues tending to the comfort and saluation of the same: very necessarie to bee learned and obserued of all men, and at all times, but chiefely in the extremitie of sicknes, and grieuous pangs of death. Composed by Lawrence Bankes, preacher of the word of God: and parson of Staunton, in the county of Glocester." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03507.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Lands, Offices, Dignities, &c. especially when we are too proud of them, or a∣buse them: then he pulleth downe one, and setteth vp another.
2. Sometime by perse∣cutions or manifold trou∣bles of our deadly foes, as priuate Grudges, open Warres, Slanders, Suites in Law, &c.
3. Sometime God doth visit vs by punishing our bodies with sicknes, lame∣nes, blindnes, ach, penu∣ry, famine, or other cala∣mities, whereby wee feele intolerable paine and tor∣ment; & all this is not vn∣worthily,
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but deseruedly.
4. Sometime in Minde, by taking away our senses, wit, reason, memory and vnderstanding: or by ta∣king from vs our dearest and neerest friends; as our Parents, Husband, Wife, Children, Brethren, Sist∣ers, &c. which vnder God are our greatest comfort in this world: and by this meanes wee are vexed in Minde, our soules are sad, and we wonderfully trou∣bled, and so had neede of some comfortable coun∣sell to cure vs in this case.
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In Gods Visitation consider three things.
- In body,
- 1. The Sicknes.
- 2. The Physi∣cian.
- 3. The Medi∣cine.
- In minde,
- 1. Our Sicknes is sinne.
- 2. Our Physici∣an is God.
- 3. Our Medi∣cine is repen∣tance, restitu∣tion, almes∣deeds, prayer and patience.