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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O Eternal and most gracious Father, I humbly throw my self down at the foot of thy mercy seat, upon the confidence of thy essential mercy, and thy commandment, that we should come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may finde mercy in time of need; O my God, hear the prayers and cries of a sinner, who calls earnestly for mercy; Lord my needs are greater then all the degrees of my desire can be; unlesse thou hast pity upon me I perish infinitely and intolerably; and then there will be one voice fewer in the quire of singers, who shall recite thy praises to eternal ages. But O Lord in mercy deliver my soul. O save me for thy mercy sake. For in the second death there is no remembrance of thee, in that grave who shall give thee thanks?