Death made comfortable, or, The way to dye well consisting of directions for an holy and an happy death : together with an office for the sick and for certain kinds of bodily illness, and for dying persons, and proper prayers upon the death of friends / by John Kettlewell ...

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Death made comfortable, or, The way to dye well consisting of directions for an holy and an happy death : together with an office for the sick and for certain kinds of bodily illness, and for dying persons, and proper prayers upon the death of friends / by John Kettlewell ...
Author
Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.
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London :: Printed for Robert Kettlewell, and are to be sold by Sam. Keble ...,
MDCXCV [1695]
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Death -- Prayer-books and devotions.
Devotional literature.
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"Death made comfortable, or, The way to dye well consisting of directions for an holy and an happy death : together with an office for the sick and for certain kinds of bodily illness, and for dying persons, and proper prayers upon the death of friends / by John Kettlewell ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47293.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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Short Ejaculations, which she may use in time of her Travel.

LOrd, my Groans are not hid from thee, let not thy mercy be hid from me.

Thy Terrours come about me, and threaten me on every side: but what time I am afraid, I will still put my trust in thee.

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Consider, O! my God, that I am made of Flesh, very sensible of Pains, and short in Patience; Oh! lay not too much upon me.

Help me, Lord, for thou art my hope.

Make hast to my help, for my Spirit waxeth faint.

Oh! Jesu, who wast thy self born of a Woman, help this tender Babe strugling for Birth. Amen.

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