The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

Author: Jeremy TAYLOR

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Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional quality; and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, and Edmund Gosse for its literary qualities.

Holy Dying is meant to instruct the reader in the "means and instruments" of preparing for a blessed death, written in a time when death was a constant companion to life and not to be encountered without being ready for it. It assumes illness and a death-bed, with recommended meditations and prayers for the sick, the family, and the clergyman attending to the dying one. (Summary by TriciaG, with help from Wikipedia)

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DedicationI.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's LifeI.II. The Consideration reduced to PracticeI.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short LifeI.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's LifeI.V. This Consideration reduced to PracticeII.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole LifeII.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bedII.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole LifeII.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former PracticesIII.I. Of the State of SicknessIII.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: ImpatienceIII.III. Constituent or integral parts of PatienceIII.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of ConsiderationIII.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of ExerciseIII.VI. Advantages of SicknessIII.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its RemediesIII.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of ExerciseIII.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctifiedIV.I. Of the Practice of PatienceIV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and EjaculationIV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of SicknessIV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their TemptationIV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of SicknessIV.VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in SicknessIV.VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and EjaculationIV.VIII. An Analysis or Resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the Duties commanded, and the Sins forbidden in every Commandment, for the helping the Sick Man in making his ConfessionIV.IX. Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way of RuleIV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of RecoveryV.I. General ObservationsV.II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick PersonsV.III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and RepentanceV.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy SacramentV.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of SoulsV.VI. Considerations against PresumptionV.VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the SickV.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial

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