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A Treatise on Death

Gelesen von InTheDesert

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 (3 hr 13 min)

Chapters

Preface

4:46

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Declaring What Death Is

3:25

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That the Time of Death is Uncertain

0:59

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That It is God Which Hath Laid the Burden of Death Upon Us

1:23

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That God Sendeth Death Because of Sin

2:21

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That God Turneth Death Unto Good

1:03

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That Death in Itself is Grievous to the Body and the Sou

6:48

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That We All Commonly are Afraid of Death

2:54

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The Commodity of Death, When It Delivereth Us from This Short Transitory Time

2:22

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Another Commodity, When Death Delivereth Us from This Miserable

6:04

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Witness That This Life is Miserable

1:53

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That Consideration of Death Beforehand is Profitable to All Virtues

1:45

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In Death We Learn the Right Knowledge of Ourselves and of God, and are Occasion…

1:40

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That the Dead Ceaseth from Sin

2:28

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That the Dead is Delivered from This Vicious World, Having not Only This Advant…

1:36

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That the Dead Obtaineth Salvation

1:35

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Similitudes, That Death is Wholesome

5:25

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Witness That Death is Wholesome

1:04

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That Death Cannot Be Avoided, Item, of Companions of Them That Die

3:25

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Of Natural Help in Danger of Death

1:56

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That God is Able and Will Help for Christ’s Sake

8:25

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That God Hath Promised His Help and Comfort

3:28

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God Setteth to His Own Helping Hand, in Such Ways and at Such Time, as is Best …

3:22

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Examples of God's Help

1:19

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That It is Necessary to Prepare for This Journey

1:36

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Provision Concerning Temporal Goods, Children, and Friends, Which Must Be Left …

3:32

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Preparation Concerning Ghostly Matters; with What Cogitations the Mind Ought Mo…

3:25

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Of Repentance and Sorrow for Sin

1:25

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Of True Faith

10:06

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Of Hope

0:58

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Of the Sacraments

2:10

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Of Prayer

2:28

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The Form of Prayer

5:24

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A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving

2:09

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That the Prayer is Heard

1:21

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That the Word of God is to Be Practised and Used

0:59

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Amendment of Life Necessary

2:39

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Exhortation Unto Patience

4:07

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The Original and Fruit of Patience

1:26

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That a Man, While He is yet in Health, Ought to Prepare Himself Beforehand

6:12

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That the Foresaid Things Ought by Time, and in Due Season, to Be Taken in Hand

6:20

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How the Sick Ought to Be Spoken Unto, If Need Shall Require

11:46

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Of the Burial, and What is to Be Done Towards Those That are Departed Hence

4:04

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How They Ought to Be Comforted, Whose Dear Friends are Dead

7:05

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That Unto Such as Die It is Profitable to Depart Out of This Life

6:43

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What Profit the Death of Friends Bringeth to Such as are Left Behind Have

5:41

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Companions That Suffer Like Heaviness of Heart

1:40

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Through God’s Help All Heart-Sorrow is Eased

2:27

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We Must Furnish Ourselves with Prayer and Patience

3:29

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Ensamples of Patience in Like Case

4:39

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The Commodity of Patience

2:31

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We Ought So to Love Our Children and Friends, That We May Forsake Them

1:50

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Of the Death of Young Persons in Especial

6:02

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Of the Death of the Aged

1:20

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Of Strange Death

2:38

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An Exhortation Written by the Lady Jane, the Night Before She Suffered, in the …

3:22

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