Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
Jeremy Taylor
37 chapters · 10 h 22 min · English
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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)
Chapters
1 Dedication 24 min 2 I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life 18 min 3 I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice 19 min 4 I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life 22 min 5 I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life 13 min 6 I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice 7 min 7 II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life 12 min 8 II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed 21 min 9 II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life 7 min 10 II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices 11 min 11 III.I. Of the State of Sickness 9 min 12 III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience 6 min 13 III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience 6 min 14 III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration 21 min 15 III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise 11 min 16 III.VI. Advantages of Sickness 38 min 17 III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies 13 min 18 III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise 14 min 19 III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified 20 min 20 IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience 19 min 21 IV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 19 min 22 IV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness 11 min 23 IV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation 10 min 24 IV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness 13 min 25 IV.VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness 23 min 26 IV.VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 15 min 27 IV.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 Confession 30 min 28 IV.IX. Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way of Rule 12 min 29 IV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of Recovery 8 min 30 V.I. General Observations 6 min 31 V.II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons 11 min 32 V.III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance 34 min 33 V.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy Sacrament 25 min 34 V.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of Souls 29 min 35 V.VI. Considerations against Presumption 7 min 36 V.VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick 30 min 37 V.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial 28 min
