The safegard of the soule Declaring sundry soueraigne salues tending to the comfort and saluation of the same: very necessarie to bee learned and obserued of all men, and at all times, but chiefely in the extremitie of sicknes, and grieuous pangs of death. Composed by Lawrence Bankes, preacher of the word of God: and parson of Staunton, in the county of Glocester.

Title

The safegard of the soule Declaring sundry soueraigne salues tending to the comfort and saluation of the same: very necessarie to bee learned and obserued of all men, and at all times, but chiefely in the extremitie of sicknes, and grieuous pangs of death. Composed by Lawrence Bankes, preacher of the word of God: and parson of Staunton, in the county of Glocester.

Author

Bankes, Lawrence.

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London :: Printed by G. P[urslowe] for Iohn Clarke, and are to bee sold vnder S. Peters Church in Cornhill,

1619.

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Consolation -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE CHRISTIAN AND GENTLE REA∣der, and specially to my owne Parishioners of Drowfeild and Staunton, of whom I haue had Charge, and to whom I wish sal∣uation and safety of soule in Christ Iesus.
• THE SAFEGARD OF THE SOVLE:
  • A Preparatiue for the Sicke.
  • God doth visit vs diuers waies.
  • The first Dutie of the Pastor.
  • Examples of Temporall Questions.
  • Examples of Spirituall Questions.
  • The second Dutie of the Pastor.
  • The first Psalme.
  • The second Psalme.
  • The third Psalme.
  • A pithy Prayer for a Pati∣ent being pained with Sicknes.
  • A comfortable Prayer against desperation.
  • An effectuall Prayer for those which be Lunatike, or possessed with any euill Spirit.
  • A fruit full Prayer in time of any common sicknes or Plague.
  • The third Dutie of the Pastor.
  • The fourth duety of the Pastor.
  • Consolation against dam∣nation.
• THE SECOND PART OF THIS Booke pertaining to the SICKE.
  • The summe of this Beliefe confessed.
  • The protestation of the Sicke.
  • The second dutie of the sicke Person.
  • A godly metion or Medita∣tation before Prayer: In which, we craue for Grace, Faith, and Pati∣ence.
  • A fruitfull Prayer for the assistance of God, in the extremitie of sicknes.
  • A pithy & profitable Prayer when wee are in danger of death: wherein we commit our selues to God, renounce the world, craue pardon for our sinnes, and for∣giue our enemies.
  • A Prayer to be said in the pangs of Death.
  • Short Petitions collected for the Sicke: Partly out of other Authors.
  • The third Dutie of the Sicke.
  • 1. Precepts perswading.
  • Two Examples prouoking.
  • Three Reasons alluring.
  • A generall and fruitfull Prayer for all Christians, to bee reuerently said at all times, Morning, Euen∣ing, Night, or Day.
  • A Prayer for Morning.
  • An Euening Prayer.
• A Table of the princi∣pall matters contained in this Booke.