The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1876
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: A General Preparation towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Consideration 1; title: Sect. I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life 1; title: Sect. II. The Consideration reduced to Practice 11; title: Sect. Ill- Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life 23; title: Sect. IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life 38; title: Sect. V. This Consideration reduced to Practice 47; title: CHAPTER II.; title: A General Preparation towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Exercise 62; title: Sect. I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life 62; title: Sect. II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed 60; title: Reasons for a daily Examination 60; title: The Benefits of this Exercise 64; title: Sect. III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life 73; title: Sect. IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices 77; title: The Circumstances of a Dying Man's Sorrow and Danger 79; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Of the Temptations incident to the State of Sickness, with their proper Remedies 84; title: Sect. I. Of the State of Sickness 84; title: Sect. II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, — Impatience 89; title: Sect. III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience . 92; title: Sect. IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration 95; title: Sect. V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise 107; title: Sect. VI. Advantages of Sickness 114; title: Three appendant Considerations 114; title: Sect. VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, — Fear of Death, with its Remedies 137; title: Remedies against the Fear of Death, by way of Consideration 139; title: Sect. VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise 147; title: Sect. IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified 167; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Of the Practice of the Gracks proper to the State of Sickness, which a Sick Man may practise alone  171; title: Sect. I. Of the Practice of Patience 171; title: The Practice and Acts of Patience, by way of Rule 172; title: Sect. II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 182; title: A Prayer to be said in the beginning of a Sickness 189; title: An act of Resignation to be said by a Sick Person in all the evil Accidents of his Sickness 190; title: A Prayer for the Grace of Patience 191; title: A Prayer to be said when the Sick Man takes Physic 194; title: Sect. III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness 194; title: Sect. IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation .201; title: The Prayer for the Grace and Strength of Faith 204; title: Sect. V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness 205; title: Sect. VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness 213; title: Means of exciting Contrition, &c. 218; title: Sect. VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 226; title: The Prayer for the Grace and Perfection of Repentance 229; title: A Prayer for Pardon of Sins, to be said frequently in the time of Sickness 231; title: An Act of Holy Resolution of Amendment of Life in case of Recovery 234; title: Sect. VIII. An Analysis or Resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the Duties commanded, and the Sins forbidden in every Commandment, for the helping; title: the Sick Man in making his Confession  235; title: The special Precepts of the Gospel enumerated 248; title: Sect. IX. Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way of Rule 253; title: Sect. X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of Recovery 260; title: The Prayer 263; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Of Visitation of the Sick ; or the Assistance that is to be done to dying persons by the Ministry of their Clergy-Guides  266; title: Sect. I. General Observations 266; title: Sect. II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons 269; title: Sect. III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance 274; title: Arguments and Exhortations to move the Sick Man to Confession of Sins 274; title: Instruments by way of Consideration, to awaken a Careless Person and a Stupid Conscience 280; title: Sect. IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy Sacrament 294; title: Sect. V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of Souls 310; title: Considerations against unreasonable Fears concerning Forgiveness of Sins 311; title: An Exercise against Despair in the Day of our Death 822; title: Sect. VI. Considerations against Presumption 331; title: Sect. VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick 336; title: The Prayer of St. Eustratins the Martyr  341; title: A Prayer taken out of the Greek Euchologion, &c. 342; title: The Order of Recommendation of the 'Soul in its Agony 344; title: Prayers to be said by the Surviving Friends in behalf of themselves 350; title: A Prayer to be said in the case of a Sudden Death, or pressing fatal Danger 352; title: Sect. VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial 354