A practical discourse concerning death by William Sherlock ...

THE CONTENTS.

• THe Introduction Page 1
• CHAP. I. The several Notions of Death, and the Improvement of them 4
  • SECT. I. The first Notion of Death, that it is our leaving this World, with the Improvement of it 6
  • SECT. II. The second Notion of Death, that it is our putting off these Bodies 35
  • SECT. III. Death considered as our en∣trance upon a new and unknown State of Life 69
• CHAP. II. Concerning the Certainty of our Death 89
  • SECT. I. A Vindication of the Iustice and Goodness of God in appointing Death for all Men 92
  • SECT. II. How to improve this Conside∣ration, that we must certainly die 110
• CHAP. III. Concerning the time of our Death, and the

• proper Improvement of it 125
  • SECT. I. That the general Period of Hu∣mane Life is fixt and determined by God, and that it is but very short 128
  • SECT. II. What little reason we have to complain of the Shortness of Humane Life 184
  • SECT. III. What Use to make of the fixt Term of Humane Life 144
  • SECT. IV. What Use to make of the Shortness of Humane Life 162
  • SECT. V. The time, and manner, and circumstances of every particular Man's Death, are not determined by an Ab∣solute and Unconditional Decree 185
  • SECT. VI. The particular time when we are to die, is unknown and uncertain to us 196
  • SECT. VII. That we must die but Once, or that Death translates us to an un∣changeable State; with the Improve∣ment of it 234
• CHAP. IV. Concerning the Fear of Death, and the Re∣medies against it 328
• The Conclusion 351