A Treatise on Death

Otho Wermullerus (1513 - 1552)
Translated by Myles Coverdale (1488 - 1569)

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.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth in me hath everlasting life. (John 6) - Summary from Title Page

Genre(s): Christianity - Other

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Preface InTheDesert
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Play 02 Declaring What Death Is InTheDesert
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Play 03 That the Time of Death is Uncertain InTheDesert
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Play 04 That It is God Which Hath Laid the Burden of Death Upon Us InTheDesert
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Play 05 That God Sendeth Death Because of Sin InTheDesert
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Play 06 That God Turneth Death Unto Good InTheDesert
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Play 07 That Death in Itself is Grievous to the Body and the Sou InTheDesert
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Play 08 That We All Commonly are Afraid of Death InTheDesert
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Play 09 The Commodity of Death, When It Delivereth Us from This Short Transitory Time InTheDesert
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Play 10 Another Commodity, When Death Delivereth Us from This Miserable InTheDesert
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Play 11 Witness That This Life is Miserable InTheDesert
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Play 12 That Consideration of Death Beforehand is Profitable to All Virtues InTheDesert
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Play 13 In Death We Learn the Right Knowledge of Ourselves and of God, and are Occasioned to Give Ourselves Unto God InTheDesert
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Play 14 That the Dead Ceaseth from Sin InTheDesert
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Play 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 InTheDesert
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Play 16 That the Dead Obtaineth Salvation InTheDesert
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Play 17 Similitudes, That Death is Wholesome InTheDesert
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Play 18 Witness That Death is Wholesome InTheDesert
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Play 19 That Death Cannot Be Avoided, Item, of Companions of Them That Die InTheDesert
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Play 20 Of Natural Help in Danger of Death InTheDesert
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Play 21 That God is Able and Will Help for Christ’s Sake InTheDesert
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Play 22 That God Hath Promised His Help and Comfort InTheDesert
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Play 23 God Setteth to His Own Helping Hand, in Such Ways and at Such Time, as is Best of All InTheDesert
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Play 24 Examples of God's Help InTheDesert
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Play 25 That It is Necessary to Prepare for This Journey InTheDesert
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Play 26 Provision Concerning Temporal Goods, Children, and Friends, Which Must Be Left Behind InTheDesert
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Play 27 Preparation Concerning Ghostly Matters; with What Cogitations the Mind Ought Most to Be Exercised InTheDesert
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Play 28 Of Repentance and Sorrow for Sin InTheDesert
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Play 29 Of True Faith InTheDesert
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Play 30 Of Hope InTheDesert
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Play 31 Of the Sacraments InTheDesert
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Play 32 Of Prayer InTheDesert
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Play 33 The Form of Prayer InTheDesert
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Play 34 A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving InTheDesert
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Play 35 That the Prayer is Heard InTheDesert
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Play 36 That the Word of God is to Be Practised and Used InTheDesert
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Play 37 Amendment of Life Necessary InTheDesert
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Play 38 Exhortation Unto Patience InTheDesert
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Play 39 The Original and Fruit of Patience InTheDesert
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Play 40 That a Man, While He is yet in Health, Ought to Prepare Himself Beforehand InTheDesert
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Play 41 That the Foresaid Things Ought by Time, and in Due Season, to Be Taken in Hand InTheDesert
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Play 42 How the Sick Ought to Be Spoken Unto, If Need Shall Require InTheDesert
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Play 43 Of the Burial, and What is to Be Done Towards Those That are Departed Hence InTheDesert
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Play 44 How They Ought to Be Comforted, Whose Dear Friends are Dead InTheDesert
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Play 45 That Unto Such as Die It is Profitable to Depart Out of This Life InTheDesert
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Play 46 What Profit the Death of Friends Bringeth to Such as are Left Behind Have InTheDesert
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Play 47 Companions That Suffer Like Heaviness of Heart InTheDesert
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Play 48 Through God’s Help All Heart-Sorrow is Eased InTheDesert
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Play 49 We Must Furnish Ourselves with Prayer and Patience InTheDesert
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Play 50 Ensamples of Patience in Like Case InTheDesert
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Play 51 The Commodity of Patience InTheDesert
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Play 52 We Ought So to Love Our Children and Friends, That We May Forsake Them InTheDesert
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Play 53 Of the Death of Young Persons in Especial InTheDesert
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Play 54 Of the Death of the Aged InTheDesert
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Play 55 Of Strange Death InTheDesert
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Play 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 InTheDesert
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