IV.IX. Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way of Rule

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

by 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)

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IV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of Recovery , V.I. General Observations , V.II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons , V.III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance , V.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy Sacrament , V.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of Souls , V.VI. Considerations against Presumption , V.VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick , V.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial