let the Pious Chriftian, at certain Periods, make Death the Subject of his Retirements. And having Dyed, as it were, by Anticipation, and put himself into a Pofture of Dying, let him then proceed to Practice: By Meditating and Improving the forementioned Duties and Graces, as the State of his Soul' fhall require.

That the following Treatife may be Serviceable to the Church of God; and may, through Divine Bleffing, be Inftrumental to the Salvation of Precious Immortal Souls; is the humble and hearty Prayer of its unworthy Author.

Day And

And he hopes he shall not be impertinent, if he thus far Commends it to Publick Accep tance. Viz.

T

Hat Books of this Sub

ject, if given at Funerals, may be of great Advantage to the Living: And would be much more feafonable Expreffions, of Refpect and Kindness, to the Memory of the Dead, than fome other Distributions.

The

• The Contents.

PRayers in the Beginning of Sick-

A

Pag. 1.

How the Will is to be made, and juft

Debts to be Stated.

p. 7.

p. 8.

A Prayer before Taking of Phyfick. p.10.

Of Confulting the Phyfician,

of fending for the Minifter.

p. 12.

Of Patience under Sickness.

P. 14.

Motive's to Patience. p. 16, to p. 48.

Scriptures concerning Patience.

P. 49.

Prayers for Patience.

Of Repentance on a Sick Bed.

P. $8.

Not then to be begun, but finished and

compleated.

p. 64.

Of Confeffion of Sins.

How this must be done.

Scriptures concerning Confeffion. p. 67.

Forms of Confeffion, with Prayers for

Pardon.

P. 72, to 86.

p. 89.

The Sick Man to Examine the Truth of

bis Repentance.

This to be done by Charity and Refti-

tution.

Ib..

P. 66.

Charity

Of Reconciliation.

P. 126.

P. 134.

A Proteftattion of Forgiveness. p. 140.

Of Reftitution. Largely; fromp.142,

[to p. 200.

Of Reftitution; With respect to the

Soul

-To the Body.

P. 143.

p. 146.

-To the Eftate.

-To a Good Name.

Ap. 154.

p. 184.

Of the Sick Man's Belief.

p. 203.

Of his Truft in God.

1. With refpect to his Soul.

Comfortable Scriptures against

A Prayer against Defpair.

2. Of Trust in God, with

the Body.

Scriptures concerning it.

A Prayer under Bodily Pains.

p. 214.

Ib.

Defpair.

[p. 218.

p. 237.

3 Of Trust in God, with refpect to

his Family.

Scriptures concerning it."

A Prayer.

Of the Sick Man's being

Die.

p. 241.

P. 244.

p. 245.-

willing to

p. 247.

In what Cafe Death is to be feared.

[p. 248.

Death not to be feared by a Good Man ;

and why? p.250, to p. 274.

Seriptures against Fear of Death.

Ib.

Prayers against Fear of Death. p. 278.

The Sick Man's Daily Prayers. p. 282.

A Prayer for a Sick Man.

p. 285.

The Sick Man's Reading the H. Scri-

•ptures.

Of Reading the Pfalms.

Leffons for a Week.

p. 290.

p. 291.

p. 293.

The Sick Man's Self-Examination.

[p.295, to p. 310.

The Sick Man's Communicating. p. 311.

The Sick Man's Abfolution. P. 314.

Prayers for a Sick Perfon, in Danger

of Death.

A Litany for a Sick Perfon. p. 320.

Ejaculations for a Dying Perfon,

Forms of Recommending the

God.

p. 318.

p. 325.

Soul to

p. 328.

A Com-