Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.

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Title: Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
Author: R. H., 1609-1678.
Publication: Oxford :: [s.n.],; 1688.
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Subject terms: Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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Digr. 1. Of the many times great uncharitableness, and mischief, of encouraging sick persons with hopes of re∣covery: at sometimes, making them omit the necessary preparations for death, and at other times, loose the many great benefits of sickness, in humiliations, confessions, &c.
Digr. 2. Of some necessary questions to be proposed to the sick (See Notes of Sick.)
Digr. 3. Of various admonitions necessary to be used to the sick; as they happen to be found, in an ignorant, or a sensless; or a presuming; or a despairing; condition.
Digr. 4. Of Psalms, and other Scriptures proper to be read to the Sick. As Psal. 6.22, 23.32.38.57.86.88; 90.102, 103.107.130.142, 143. Job. 1, 2. Ezech. 18. The passion of our Saviour in one of the Gospels, begin∣ning at his Prayer in the Garden. Jo. 17. Rom. 8. —1. Cor. 15. —1. Thess. 4. Rev. 21, 22.
Digr. 5. Of short Scripture-Ejaculations proper to be used by them (See Notes of Sick.)
Digr. 6. Directions for the behaviour of the Visitors of, or Attendants upon, the sick. Non consolari eos spe recuperandae sanitatis, See before, §. 161. n. 1. Non plorare — Non ridere — Non alienos sermones miscere — Non multum loqui; necsubtilia — Sancto silentio Deum precari. See Vita Camelli De Lellis.