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Holy Dying

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A seventeenth-century devotional classic on mortality, preparation, repentance, and Christian hope.

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Holy Dying

Holy Dying complements Holy Living with meditations on illness, death, repentance, consolation, and the art of preparing the soul. Jeremy Taylor’s prose joins pastoral care with theological seriousness, making mortality a discipline of wisdom and hope.

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Original English work first published in 1651. Jeremy Taylor died in 1667; the work is public domain by age and expired copyright.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02THE
  3. 03RULE AND EXERCISES
  4. 04OF
  5. 05HOLY DYING:
  6. 06IN WHICH ARE DESCRIBED THE
  7. 07MEANS AND INSTRUMENTS
  8. 08OF
  9. 09PREPARING OURSELVES AND OTHERS RESPECTIVELY FOR A BLESSED DEATH: AND THE REMEDIES AGAINST THE EVILS AND TEMPTATIONS PROPER TO THE STATE OF SICKNESS:
  10. 10TOGETHER WITH
  11. 11PRAYERS AND ACTS OF VIRTUE
  12. 12TO BE USED BY SICK AND DYING PERSONS, OR BY OTHERS STANDING IN THEIR ATTENDANCE.
  13. 13TO WHICH ARE ADDED
  14. 14RULES FOR THE VISITATION OF THE SICK
  15. 15AND
  16. 16OFFICES PROPER FOR THAT MINISTRY.
  17. 17BY JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D.
  18. 18CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO KING CHARLES THE FIRST, AND SOME LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR
  19. 19Dedication
  20. 20TO THE RIGHT HON. AND NOBLEST LORD RICHARD, EARL OF CARBERY, ETC., ETC.
  21. 21HOLY DYING.
  22. 22CHAPTER I.
  23. 23A GENERAL PREPARATION TOWARDS A HOLY AND BLESSED DEATH, BY WAY OF CONSIDERATION.
  24. 24SECTION I.
  25. 25SECTION II.
  26. 26SECTION III.
  27. 27SECTION IV.
  28. 28SECTION V.
  29. 29CHAPTER II.
  30. 30A GENERAL PREPARATION TOWARDS A HOLY AND BLESSED DEATH, BY WAY OF EXERCISE.
  31. 31SECTION I.
  32. 32Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life.
  33. 33SECTION II.
  34. 34SECTION III.
  35. 35SECTION IV.
  36. 36CHAPTER III.
  37. 37OF THE STATE OF SICKNESS AND THE TEMPTATIONS INCIDENT TO IT, WITH THEIR PROPER REMEDIES.
  38. 38SECTION I.
  39. 39SECTION II.
  40. 40SECTION III.
  41. 41SECTION IV.
  42. 42SECTION V.
  43. 43SECTION VI.
  44. 44SECTION VII.
  45. 45SECTION VIII
  46. 46SECTION IX.
  47. 47CHAPTER IV.
  48. 48OF THE PRACTICE OF THE GRACES PROPER TO THE STATE OF SICKNESS, WHICH A SICK MAN MAY PRACTICE ALONE.
  49. 49SECTION I.
  50. 50SECTION II.
  51. 51SECTION III.
  52. 52SECTION IV.
  53. 53SECTION V.
  54. 54SECTION VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness.
  55. 55SECTION VII.
  56. 56SECTION VIII.
  57. 57SECTION IX.
  58. 58SECTION X.
  59. 59CHAPTER V.
  60. 60OF VISITATION OF THE SICK: OR THE ASSISTANCE THAT IS TO BE DONE TO DYING PERSONS BY THE MINISTRY OF THEIR CLERGY-GUIDES.
  61. 61SECTION I.
  62. 62SECTION II.
  63. 63SECTION III.
  64. 64SECTION IV.
  65. 65SECTION V.
  66. 66SECTION VI.
  67. 67SECTION VII.
  68. 68SECTION VIII.
  69. 69THE END.

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