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A GENERAL PREPARATION TOWARDS A HOLY
BLESSED DEATH, BY WAY OF EXERCISE.

SECTION I.

Three Precepts preparatory to an Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life

SECTION II.

Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole course
of our Health, preparatory to our Death-bed
Reasons for a daily Examination

The Benefits of this Exercise

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SECTION III.

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Of exercising Charity during our whole Life

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SECTION IV.

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General Considerations to enforce the former Practices..
The Circumstances of a Dying Man's Sorrow, and Danger 46

CHAPTER III.

OF THE STATE OF SICKNESS, AND THE TEMPTATIONS INCIDENT TO IT, WITH THEIR PROPER REMEDies.

Of the State of Sickness

SECTION I.

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CHAPTER IV.

OF THE PRACTICE OF THE GRACES PROPER

TO THE

STATE OF SICKNESS, WHICH A SICK MAN MAY PRACTISE ALONE.

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The Practice and Acts of Patience, by way of Rule

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SECTION II.

Acts of Patience by way of Prayer and Ejaculation

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The Prayer to be said in the beginning of a Sickness.... 113 An Act of Resignation to be said by a Sick Person in all the evil Accidents of his Sickness

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ib.

A Prayer to be said when the Sick Man takes Physic ... 116

SECTION III.

Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the Time of
Sickness

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SECTION IV.

Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation.... 121 The Prayer for the Grace and Strengths of Faith

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SECTION V.

Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the Time

of Sickness

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SECTION VI.

Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness..... Means of exciting Contrition, or Repentance of Sins, proceeding from the Love of God

SECTION VII.

Acts of Repentance by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be used especially by old Men in their Age, and by all Men in their Sickness..

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The Prayer for the Grace and Perfection of Repentance.. 138 A Prayer for Pardon of Sins, to be said frequently in Time of Sickness, and in all the Portions of Old Age. An Act of holy Resolution of Amendment of Life in case of Recovery

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SECTION VIII.

An Analysis, or Resolution of the Decalogue, and the special Precepts of the Gospel, describing the Duties enjoined, and the Sins forbidden respectively; for the assistance of Sick Men in making their Confessions to God and his Ministers, and the rendering their Repentance more particular and perfect....

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I. Thou shalt have none other gods but me

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II. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven Image, nor worship it......

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III. Thou shalt not take God's Name in vain.....

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IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day.... 147

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Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way

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ib.

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ib.

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of Rule..

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