The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
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Jeremy Taylor
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) (10 hr 22 min)
Chapters
I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Ob…
22:02
Read by KHand
II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole …
12:07
Read by Chris Bunn
II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, p…
21:07
Read by MaryAnn
III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience
6:06
Read by David Lawrence
III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, …
13:24
Read by DeAnna Dailey
III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sa…
19:48
Read by DeAnna Dailey
IV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men …
9:58
Read by Tony Addison
IV.VIII. An Analysis or Resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the Duties com…
30:20
Read by TriciaG
IV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used…
8:13
Read by Amelia Chesley
V.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Si…
25:19
Read by TriciaG
V.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physi…
28:43
Read by Anna Roberts
V.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed…
27:36
Read by MaryAnn