A most fruitful, pithy and learned treatise, how a Christian man ought to behave himself in the danger of death and how they are to be relieved and comforted whose dear friends are departed out of this world, most necessary for this unfortunate age and sorrowful days.
Chapters
1 Preface 5 min 2 Declaring What Death Is 3 min 3 That the Time of Death is Uncertain 1 min 4 That It is God Which Hath Laid the Burden of Death Upon Us 1 min 5 That God Sendeth Death Because of Sin 2 min 6 That God Turneth Death Unto Good 1 min 7 That Death in Itself is Grievous to the Body and the Sou 7 min 8 That We All Commonly are Afraid of Death 3 min 9 The Commodity of Death, When It Delivereth Us from This Short Transitory Time 2 min 10 Another Commodity, When Death Delivereth Us from This Miserable 6 min 11 Witness That This Life is Miserable 2 min 12 That Consideration of Death Beforehand is Profitable to All Virtues 2 min 13 In Death We Learn the Right Knowledge of Ourselves and of God, and are Occasioned to Give Ourselves Unto God 2 min 14 That the Dead Ceaseth from Sin 2 min 15 That the Dead is Delivered from This Vicious World, Having not Only This Advantage, That He Sinneth No More, but also is Discharged from Other Sins 2 min 16 That the Dead Obtaineth Salvation 2 min 17 Similitudes, That Death is Wholesome 5 min 18 Witness That Death is Wholesome 1 min 19 That Death Cannot Be Avoided, Item, of Companions of Them That Die 3 min 20 Of Natural Help in Danger of Death 2 min 21 That God is Able and Will Help for Christ's Sake 8 min 22 That God Hath Promised His Help and Comfort 3 min 23 God Setteth to His Own Helping Hand, in Such Ways and at Such Time, as is Best of All 3 min 24 Examples of God's Help 1 min 25 That It is Necessary to Prepare for This Journey 2 min 26 Provision Concerning Temporal Goods, Children, and Friends, Which Must Be Left Behind 4 min 27 Preparation Concerning Ghostly Matters; with What Cogitations the Mind Ought Most to Be Exercised 3 min 28 Of Repentance and Sorrow for Sin 1 min 29 Of True Faith 10 min 30 Of Hope 1 min 31 Of the Sacraments 2 min 32 Of Prayer 2 min 33 The Form of Prayer 5 min 34 A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving 2 min 35 That the Prayer is Heard 1 min 36 That the Word of God is to Be Practised and Used 1 min 37 Amendment of Life Necessary 3 min 38 Exhortation Unto Patience 4 min 39 The Original and Fruit of Patience 1 min 40 That a Man, While He is yet in Health, Ought to Prepare Himself Beforehand 6 min 41 That the Foresaid Things Ought by Time, and in Due Season, to Be Taken in Hand 6 min 42 How the Sick Ought to Be Spoken Unto, If Need Shall Require 12 min 43 Of the Burial, and What is to Be Done Towards Those That are Departed Hence 4 min 44 How They Ought to Be Comforted, Whose Dear Friends are Dead 7 min 45 That Unto Such as Die It is Profitable to Depart Out of This Life 7 min 46 What Profit the Death of Friends Bringeth to Such as are Left Behind Have 6 min 47 Companions That Suffer Like Heaviness of Heart 2 min 48 Through God's Help All Heart-Sorrow is Eased 2 min 49 We Must Furnish Ourselves with Prayer and Patience 3 min 50 Ensamples of Patience in Like Case 5 min 51 The Commodity of Patience 3 min 52 We Ought So to Love Our Children and Friends, That We May Forsake Them 2 min 53 Of the Death of Young Persons in Especial 6 min 54 Of the Death of the Aged 1 min 55 Of Strange Death 3 min 56 An Exhortation Written by the Lady Jane, the Night Before She Suffered, in the End of the New Testament in Greek, which She Sent to Her Sister Lady Katherine 3 min
