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The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)

Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional quality; and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, and Edmund Gosse for its literary qualities.

Holy Dying is meant to instruct the reader in the "means and instruments" of preparing for a blessed death, written in a time when death was a constant companion to life and not to be encountered without being ready for it. It assumes illness and a death-bed, with recommended meditations and prayers for the sick, the family, and the clergyman attending to the dying one. (Summary by TriciaG, with help from Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Christianity - Other

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Dedication	KHand	00:23:30
Play 01	I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life	MaryAnn	00:17:31
Play 02	I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice	MaryAnn	00:19:16
Play 03	I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life	KHand	00:22:02
Play 04	I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life	KHand	00:13:24
Play 05	I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice	KHand	00:06:57
Play 06	II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life	Chris Bunn	00:12:07
Play 07	II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed	MaryAnn	00:21:07
Play 08	II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life	Ed Humpal	00:06:55
Play 09	II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices	Ed Humpal	00:10:39
Play 10	III.I. Of the State of Sickness	Joseph Tabler	00:08:53
Play 11	III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience	David Lawrence	00:06:06
Play 12	III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience	OCTL7	00:06:06
Play 13	III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration	TriciaG	00:20:46
Play 14	III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise	Amelia Chesley	00:11:08
Play 15	III.VI. Advantages of Sickness	TriciaG	00:37:38
Play 16	III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies	DeAnna Dailey	00:13:24
Play 17	III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise	DeAnna Dailey	00:14:19
Play 18	III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified	DeAnna Dailey	00:19:48
Play 19	IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience	sgrace	00:19:23
Play 20	IV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation	TriciaG	00:19:21
Play 21	IV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness	TriciaG	00:10:55
Play 22	IV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation	Tony Addison	00:09:58
Play 23	IV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness	TriciaG	00:12:55
Play 24	IV.VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness	TriciaG	00:23:05
Play 25	IV.VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation	TriciaG	00:15:06
Play 26	IV.VIII. An Analysis or Resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the Duties commanded, and the Sins forbidden in every Commandment, for the helping the Sick Man in making his Confession	TriciaG	00:30:20
Play 27	IV.IX. Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way of Rule	TriciaG	00:11:56
Play 28	IV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of Recovery	Amelia Chesley	00:08:13
Play 29	V.I. General Observations	David Lawrence	00:05:56
Play 30	V.II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons	Jill Preston	00:11:13
Play 31	V.III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance	TriciaG	00:33:32
Play 32	V.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy Sacrament	TriciaG	00:25:19
Play 33	V.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of Souls	Anna Roberts	00:28:43
Play 34	V.VI. Considerations against Presumption	Anna Roberts	00:07:04
Play 35	V.VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick	MaryAnn	00:29:52
Play 36	V.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial	MaryAnn	00:27:36

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