Phisicke for the soule verye necessarie to be vsed in the agonie of death, and in those extreme and moste perillous seasons, aswell for those, which are in good health, as those, which are endewed with bodily sicknesse. Translated out of Latine into Englishe, by H. Thorne.
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Phisicke for the soule verye necessarie to be vsed in the agonie of death, and in those extreme and moste perillous seasons, aswell for those, which are in good health, as those, which are endewed with bodily sicknesse. Translated out of Latine into Englishe, by H. Thorne.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,
[1567?]
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Consolation -- Early works to 1800.
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"Phisicke for the soule verye necessarie to be vsed in the agonie of death, and in those extreme and moste perillous seasons, aswell for those, which are in good health, as those, which are endewed with bodily sicknesse. Translated out of Latine into Englishe, by H. Thorne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09620.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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There be three things, which torment vs most greeuously, and cruelly, and doe trouble our mindes in the A∣gonie of death, that is to wit, Sinne, Death, Hell, or Dam∣nation.
Sinne
WHen those Sinnes come in our mindes (we lying sicke) wherein wée haue wickedly & noughtily passed ouer our lyues, wherby we haue very gréeuously offēded both God, and our neighbor: we are striken with great feare and sorrow, euen as S. Paule sayeth vnto the Romaines: Indignation & wrath,* 1.1 tribulation, and anguishe shall come vpon the soule, of euery man that doth euill.
Death.
ADam, our flesh, dieth very vn∣wyllingly. Wherefore when death approcheth neere, mans heart is altoo shaken wyth great dolors and heauinesse,
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which no tongue is able to expresse. For our fearefull affection, and oure naturall man, dreadeth miserablie, least yt when he is once dead and buried vnder the earth, he shall ne∣uer returne againe and liue, but supposeth that he is vndone for euer.
Hell fire, and Damnation.
WHen those things come (as it were) before our eyes, then man feareth, least he bée vt∣terly cast away from the pre∣sence of God, and séeth none other thing in himselfe, but euerlasting death. Wée haue neede therfore of a good courage in this case, and of a strong and valiant heart, that there appeare in vs, no point of cowardnesse, and desperation.
¶A Prayer for the same.
O Most mercifull God, and most louing Father, I beséech thée aide vs, and graunt that we, which bée yet in good health and safetie, may learn to feare
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and dreade thée, may loue and imbrace thy holy worde, and that we may set thée before vs, as a scope and marke whervnto we may direct all our doings, and that we being al∣wayes mindefull of the most bitter agonie of death, may so prepare & arme our selues, that we maye order all our deedes to thy glory, as doe the godly, which feare thée, and that we may in the ende obteyne euer∣lasting lyfe. Amen.