A riche storehouse, or treasurie, for the sicke, full of Christian counsels holesome doctrines, comfortable persuasions, and godly meditations, meete for all Christians, both in sicknesse and in health. Wherevnto is annexed a comfort for poore prisoners, and also an exhortation to repentance. Written in Dutch, by Gaspar Huberine, and Englished by Thomas Godfrie, esquire, late ... fruits and ... at the request of his dangter Marie, wife ... Iohn French, gentleman of the Inner Temple

To the Christian Reader.

AS all actions (Christian Rea∣der) in generall, depend vpon their speciall occasions: so the publishing of this preset boke or manuell, proceedeth from ••e seuerall reasons. The first, from the na∣••ll affection and louing kindnesse, which ••••ildren are bound in conscience to shew ••eir tender parents, wherewith I, among ••ther aboue the rest, feele my selfe in∣••dly touched towards my good and louing ••er: whome, as in his life time obedient∣•• ••euerenced: so nowe also, after his death ••unerall, I am no lesse carefull to haue remembred: and therefore vnder his ••e, haue caused to be set foorth this god∣••d Christian exercise of his own transla∣•• for the comfort of all faithfull people, as ••onument of maintenance in his memo∣••. The second, from Christian loue and ••ritie, the bond of all perfection, where∣•• the souldiers of Christe are specially ••rged: which then (indeede) most natu∣•• appeareth, when we, (perceiuing the bo∣dies

of our brethren and sisters so infeebled and consumed with sicknesse, or otherwise by lawe, through desert of death, iudged and condemned, that they are past all temporall recouerie,) succour neuerthelesse their ap∣passionate soules, with comfortable restori∣ties of the spirite, that they may the more willingly forsake the wildernesse of this worlde, and constantly trauell the high way to heauen. The third, from a godly desire, to haue other semblably occupied, in bestowing (I meane) such their talents, as GOD (the riche and gratious giuer of all good thinges) hath committed and put vnder their cre∣dite: that in so labouring, they in their Chri∣stian calling may feele their consciences dis∣charged, the members of Christ his mystical body benefited, and finally, almightie GOD our Creatour glorified. To whom, with the Sonne, and the holie Ghost, be all honor, power, maiestie, and dominion, for euermore. Amen.

Thine in Christ, Marie Frenche.