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The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. A General Preparation towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Consideration 1 Sect. I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life 1 Sect. II. The Consideration reduced to Practice 11 Sect. Ill- Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life 23 Sect. IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life 38 Sect. V. This Consideration reduced to Practice 47 CHAPTER II. A General Preparation towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Exercise 62 Sect. I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life 62 Sect. II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed 60 Reasons for a daily Examination 60 The Benefits of this Exercise 64 Sect. III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life 73 Sect. IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices 77 The Circumstances of a Dying Man's Sorrow and Danger 79 CHAPTER III. Of the Temptations incident to the State of Sickness, with their proper Remedies 84 Sect. I. Of the State of Sickness 84 Sect. II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, — Impatience 89 S

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