Holy Dying

By Taylor, Jeremy

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Title:	Holy Dying
Author:	Taylor, Jeremy
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Language:	English
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Religion and Christian Theology Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: I am treating your Lordship as a Roman gentleman did St. Augustine and his mother: I shall entertain you in a charnel-house, and carry your meditations awhile into the chambers of death, where you shall find the rooms dressed up with melancholic arts, and fit to converse with your most retired thoughts, which begin with a sigh, and proceed in deep consideration, and end in a holy resolution. The sight that St. Augustine most noted in that house of sorrow, was the body of Caesar, clothed with all the dishonours of corruption that you can suppose in a six months? burial. But I know, that, without pointing, your first thoughts will remember the change of a greater beauty, which is now dressing for the brightest immortality, and from herbed of darkness calls to you to dress your soul for that change which shall mingle your bones with that beloved dust, and carry your soul to the same quire, where you may both sit and sing for ever. My Lord, it is your dear Lady?s anniversary, and she deserved the biggest honour, and the longest memory, and the fairest monument, and the most solemn mourning: and in order to it, give me leave, my Lord, to cover her hearse with these following sheets. This book was intended first to minister to her piety; and she desired all good people should partake of the advantages which are here recorded; she knew how to live rarely well, and she desired to know how to die; and God taught her by an experiment. But since her work is done, and God supplied her with provisions of his own, before I could minister to her, and perfect what she desired, it is necessary to present to your Lordship those bundles of cypress which were intended to dress her closet, but come now to dress her hearse. My Lord, both your Lordship, and myself have lately seen and felt such sorrows of death, and such sad departure of dearest friends, that it is more than high time we should thing ourselves nearly concerned in the accidents. Death hath come so near to you, as to fetch a portion from your very heart; and now you cannot choose but dig your own grave, and place your coffin in your eye, when the angel hath dressed your scene of sorrow and mediation with so particular and so near an object: and, therefore, as it is my duty, I am come to minister to your pious thoughts, and to direct your sorrows, that they may turn into virtues and advantages.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Dedication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3 p. 9 Chapter I. A General Preparation Towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Consideration.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man?s Life.. . . . . p. 9 Section II. The Consideration Reduced to Practice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13 p. 17 Section III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of Lengthening Our Days, and to Take Off the Objection of a Short Life.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section IV. Considerations of the Miseries of Man?s Life.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 23 Section V. The Consideration Reduced to Practice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27 p. 29 Chapter II. A General Preparation Towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Exercise.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 29 Section I. Three Precepts Preparatory to a Holy Death, to Be Practised in Our Whole Life.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32 Section II. Of Daily Examination of Our Actions in the Whole Course of Our Health, Preparatory to Our Deathbed.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section III. Of Excercising Charity During Our Whole Life.. . . . . . . . . . p. 37 Section IV. General Considerations to Enforce the Former Practices.. . . . p. 39 p. 42 Chapter III. Of the State of Sickness and the Temptations Incident to It, With Their Proper Remedies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section I. Of the State of Sickness.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 42 p. 44 Section II. Of the First Temptation Proper to the State of Sickness ? Impatience.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section III. Constituent or Integral Parts of Patience.. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 45 Section IV. Remedies Againt Impatience, by Way of Consideration.. . . . . p. 46 Section V. Remedies Against Impatience, by Way of Exercise.. . . . . . . p. 51 Section VI. Advantages of Sickness.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 54 p. 62 Section VIII. The Second Temptation Proper to the State of Sickness, Fear of Death, with Its Remedies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section VIII. Remedies Against Fear of Death, by Way of Exercise.. . . . . p. 66 p. 70 Section IX. General Rules and Excercises Whereby Our Sickness May Become Safe and Sanctified.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 76 Chapter IV. Of the Practice of the Graces Proper to the State of Sickness, Which a Sick Man May Practice Alone.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .