The rule and exercises of holy dying in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively, for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sicknesse : together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance : to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick and offices proper for that ministery.
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The rule and exercises of holy dying in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively, for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sicknesse : together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance : to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick and offices proper for that ministery.
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Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
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London :: Printed for R.R. and are to be sold by Edward Martin, bookseller,
1651.
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Christian life.
Death.
Sick -- Prayer-books and devotions.
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"The rule and exercises of holy dying in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively, for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sicknesse : together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance : to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick and offices proper for that ministery." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64099.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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THE TABLE.
CHAP. I.
A General preparation towards a holy and blessed death by way of consideration,
1.
§ I. Consideration of the vanity and shortnesse of mans life,
ibid.
§ II. The consideration reduced to pra∣ctise,
10.
§ III. Rules and spiritual arts of leng∣thening our dayes, and to take off the objection of a short life,
21.
§ IV. Consideration of the miseries of mans life,
35.
§ V. The consideration reduced to pra∣ctise.
43.
CHAP. II.
A general preparation towards a holy and blessed death, by way of exer∣cise,
48.
§ I. Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole life.
ibid.
§ II. Of daily examination of our acti∣ons in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death bed,
55.
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Reasons for a daily examination,
ibid.
The benefits of this exercise,
59
§ III. Of exercising charity during our whole life,
67.
§ IV. General considerations to inforce the former practises,
71.
The circumstances of a dying mans sorrow and danger,
72.
CHAP. III.
Of the temptations incident to the state of sicknesse with their proper reme∣dies,
77.
§ I. Of the state of sicknesse,
ibid.
§ II. Of Impatience,
81.
§ III. Constituent or integral parts of patience,
84.
§ IV. Remedies against impatience by way of consideration.
87.
§ V. Remedies against impatience by way of exercise.
98.
§ VI. Advantages of sicknesse,
104.
Three appendant considerations,
1••0, 121, 122.
§ VII. Remedies against fear of death, by way of consideration.
127
§ VIII. Remedies against fear of death, by way of exercise.
134.
§ IX. General Rules and Exercises
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whereby our sicknesse may become safe and sanctified,
143.
CHAP. IV.
Of the practise of the graces, proper to the state of sicknesse which a sick man may practise alone,
156.
§ I. Of the practise of patience by way of Rule,
156, 157.
§ II. Acts of patience by way of prayer and ejaculation.
167.
A prayer to be said in the beginning of a sicknesse.
173.
An act of resignation to be said in all the evil accidents of his sickness
174.
A prayer for the grace of patience
175.
A prayer to be said at the taking Phy∣sic,
177.
§ III. Of the practise of the grace of faith in time of sicknesse,
178.
§ IV. Acts of faith by way of prayer, and ejaculation to be said by sick men in the dayes of their temptation
184.
The prayer [for the grace & strengths of faith,
186.
§ V. Of repentance in the time of sick∣nesse,
188.
§ VI. Rules for the practise of repent∣ance in sicknesse,
195.
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Means of exciting contrition, &c.
200
§ VII. Acts of repentance by way of prayer and ejaculation
208.
The prayer] for the grace and perfecti∣on of repentance
210.
A prayer for pardon of sins to be said frequently in time of sicknesse
212.
An act of holy resolution of amend∣ment of life in case of recovery
214.
§ VIII. An analysis or resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the duties commanded, and the sins forbidden in every Commandment, for the help∣ing the sick man in making his con∣fession
216.
The special precepts of the Gospel enu∣merated 69,
227.
§ IX. Of the sick mans practise of cha∣rity and justice by way of Rule
231.
§ X. Acts of charity by way of prayer and ejaculation which may also be used for thanksgiving in case of re∣covery.
238.
CHAP. V,
Of visitation of the sick, or § I. The assistance that is to be done to dying persons by the ministery of their Clergy-Guides.
242.
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§ II. Rules for the manner of visitati∣ons of the sick
245.
§ III. Of ministring in the sick mans confession of sins and Repentance
250
Arguments and exhortations to move the sick man to confession of sins
ibid.
Instruments by way of consideration to awaken a careless person and a stupid conscience
255.
§ IV. Of ministring to the restitution and pardon. or reconciliation of the sick person by administring the holy Sacrament
268.
§ V. Of ministring to the sick person by the Spiritual man as he is the Phy∣sitian of souls
282.
Considerations against unreasonable fears concerning forgivenesse of sins, and its uncertainty and danger
283.
An exercise against despair in the day of our death
293.
§ VI. Considerations against Presum∣ption
301.
§ VII. Offices to be said by the Mini∣ster in his visitation of the sick
306.
The prayer of S. Eustratius the Mar∣tyr
310.
A prayer taken out of the Greek Eu∣chologion,
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&c.
311.
The order of recommendation of the soul in its agony
313.
Prayers to be said by the surviving friends in behalf of them selves
318.
A prayer to be said in the case of a sud∣den death, or pressing fatall dan∣ger
321.
§ VIII. A peroration concerning the con∣tingencies, and treatings of our de∣parted friends after death, in order to their will and buriall.
322.
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