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ib.

A Prayer to be said in bebalf of a Sick or Dying Person

ib.

A Prayer to be said in a Storm at Sea : .....

282

An Act of Resignation.....

283

A Form of a Vow in the Time of Danger

ib.
A Form of a Prayer to be used for a Blessing on an Enterprise

ib.

A Prayer before a Journey

284

AD SECTION IV.] A Prayer to be said before the Hearing or Reading

the Word of God.

AD SECTION V. IX. X.] A Form of Confession of Sins and Repentance,

to be used upon Fasting Days, or Days of Humiliation; especially in

Lent, and before the Holy Sacrament

ib.

Prayer .......

.. 287

(1.) Ex Liturgia S. Basilii magna ex parte

288

A short Form of Thanksgiving to be said upon any Special Deliverance,

as from Childbirth, from Sickness, from Battle, or imminent Danger

at Sea or Land, &c. ...

293

A Prayer of Thanksgiving after the receiving of some great Blessing, as

the Birth of an Heir, the Success of an honest Design, a Victory, a

good Harvest, &c.

294

A Prayer to be said on the Feast of Christmas, or the Birth of our

Blessed Saviour Jesus : the same also may be said upon the Feast of

the Annunciation and Purification of the B. Virgin Mary...... 295

A Prayer to be said upon our Birth-Day, or Day of Baptism

296

A Prayer to be said upon the Days of the Memory of Apostles, Martyrs,

ib.

&c. ..

297

A Form of Prayer recording all the Parts and Mysteries of Christ's

Passion, being a short History of it: to be used especially in the

Week of the Passion, and before the receiving of the Blessed Sacra-

a

Ad Section VII. VIII. X.) A Form of Prayer or Intercession for all

Estates of People in the Christian Church. The Parts of which may

be added to any other Forms: and the whole Office, entirely as it lies,

is proper to be said in our Preparation to the Holy Sacrament, or on

the Day of Celebration...

302

1. For Ourselves ·

ib.

2. For the whole Catholic Church.......

ib.

3. For all Christian Kings, Princes, and Governors •

303

4. For all the Orders of them that minister about holy Things....... ib.

5. For our nearest Relatives, as Husband, Wife, Children, Family, &c. 304

6. For our Parents, our Kindred in the Flesh, our Friends and Bene-

factors.co...

ib,

7. For all that lie under the Rod of War, Famine, Pestilence: to be said

in the Time of Plague, or War, &c.

305

8. For all Women with Child, and for Unborn Children

ib.

9. For all Estates of Men and Women in the Christian Church ...... 306

Ad Section X.) The Manner of using these Devotions, by way of Pre-

paration to the receiving the blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 307

A Prayer of Preparation or Address to the holy Sacrament

Ejaculations to be said before, or at, the receiving the holy Sacrament ib.

Ejaculations to be used any time that Day, after the Solemnity is ended 313

ib.

CONTENTS

OF THE

RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY DYING.

CHAP. 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..

PAGE

335

Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the

Objection of a Short Life ..

...... 349

A GENERAL PREPARATION TOWARDS A HOLY AND BLESSED DEATH,

BY WAY OF EXERCISE.

SECTION 1.

Three Precepts preparatory to a holy Death, to be practised in our

Of Daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, so

preparatory to our Death-bed

373

Reasons for a Daily Examination

ib.

The Benefits of this Exercise.

376

SECTION III.

Of exercising Charity during our whole Life ...

381

SECTION IV.

General Considerations to enforce the former Practices. •

The Circumstances of a Dying Man's Sorrow and Danger:

384

385

CHAP. III.

OF THE STATE OF SICKNESS, AND THE TEMPTATIONS INCIDENT TO IT,

WITH THEIR PROPER REMEDIES.

SECTION II.

Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, Impatience.... 392

SECTION VII.

The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, Fear of Death, k

with its Remedies ..genge* q*•$99.9***423

Remedies against the Fear of Death, by way of Consideration ....... 425

SECTION VIIT.

Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise...

PACE

.... 430

SECTION 1X.

General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe

and sanctified.......

436

CHAP. IV.

OF THE PRACTICE OF TAE GRAÇES PROPER TO THE STATE OF SICKNESS

WHICH A SICK MAN MAY PRACTISE ALONE.

SECTION I.

Of the Practice of Patience ...

The Practice and Acts of Patience, by way of Rule .......

445

** 446

SECTION IT.

Acts of Patience, by way of Prayet and Ejaculation

...... 452

The Prayer to be said in the Beginning of a Sickness ...

456

An Act of Resignation, to be said by a Sick Person in all the evil Acci-

dents of his Sickness

457

A Prayer for the Grace of Patience

.. 458

A Prayer to be said when the Sick Man takes Physic

.... 459

SECTION III.

Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith, in the Time of Sickness. ...... 460

SECTION IV.

Acts of Faith by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick

Men in the Days of their Temptation

464

The Prayer for the Grace and Strengths of Faith

••••... 466

SECTION V.

Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the Time of Sickness• •• 467

SECTION VI.

Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness..

... 479

Means of exciting Contrition, or Repentance of Sins, proceeding from

: the Love of Godod

Boeken

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