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SECTION X.
Of Preparation to, and the Manner how to receive the Holy Sacrament
of the Lord's Supper
...
The Effects and Benefits of worthy Communicating•••••
Prayers for all Sorts of Men and all Necessities; relating to the several
Parts of the Virtue of Religion
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A Prayer for the Graces of Faith, Hope, Charity.....
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274
ib.
Acts of Love, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; to be used in private 275
A Prayer to be said in any Affliction, as Death of Children, of Husband
or Wife, in great Poverty, in Imprisonment, in a Sad and Disconso-
late Spirit, and in Temptations to Despair...........
......
Ejaculations and short Meditations to be used in Time of Sickness and
Sorrow, or Danger of Death ·
An Act of Faith concerning the Resurrection and the Day of Judgment,
to be said by Sick Persons, or meditated
Short Prayers to be said by Sick Persons
Acts of Hope, to be used by Sick Persons after a Pious Life.
A Prayer to be said in behalf of a Sick or Dying Person
A Prayer to be said in a Storm at Sea.
An Act of Resignation•••
A Form of a Vow in the Time of Danger
A Form of a Prayer to be used for a Blessing on an Enterprise
A Prayer before a Journey
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284
AD SECTION IV.] A Prayer to be said before the Hearing or Reading
the Word of God
AD SECTION V. IX. X.] A Form of Confession of Sins and Repentance,
to be used upon Fasting Days, or Days of Humiliation; especially in
Lent, and before the Holy Sacrament
A short Form of Thanksgiving to be said upon any Special Deliverance,
as from Childbirth, from Sickness, from Battle, or imminent Danger
at Sea or Land, &c.
A Prayer of Thanksgiving after the receiving of some great Blessing, as
the Birth of an Heir, the Success of an honest Design, a Victory, a
good Harvest, &c.
A Prayer to be said on the Feast of Christmas, or the Birth of our
Blessed Saviour Jesus: the same also may be said upon the Feast of
the Annunciation and Purification of the B. Virgin Mary.......... 295
A Prayer to be said upon our Birth-Day, or Day of Baptism
296
A Prayer to be said upon the Days of the Memory of Apostles, Martyrs,
&c.
A Form of Prayer recording all the Parts and Mysteries of Christ's
Passion, being a short History of it: to be used especially in the
Week of the Passion, and before the receiving of the Blessed Sacra-
ment.......
Prayer...
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AD SECTION VII. VIII. X.] A Form of Prayer or Intercession for all
Estates of People in the Christian Church. The Parts of which may
be added to any other Forms: and the whole Office, entirely as it lies,
is proper to be said in our Preparation to the Holy Sacrament, or on
the Day of Celebration.....
1. For Ourselves ......
2. For the whole Catholic Church•••••••
3. For all Christian Kings, Princes, and Governors
4. For all the Orders of them that minister about holy Things..................
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303
5. For our nearest Relatives, as Husband, Wife, Children, Family, &c. 304
6. For our Parents, our Kindred in the Flesh, our Friends and Bene-
factors......
7. For all that lie under the Rod of War, Famine, Pestilence: to be said
in the Time of Plague, or War, &c. ····
8. For all Women with Child, and for Unborn Children
.... 305
9. For all Estates of Men and Women in the Christian Church ...... 306
AD SECTION X.] The Manner of using these Devotions, by way of Pre-
paration to the receiving the blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper S07
A Prayer of Preparation or Address to the holy Sacrament
An Act of Love •••
An Act of Desire
An Act of Contrition
An Act of Faith
Petition
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Ejaculations to be said before, or at, the receiving the holy Sacrament ib.
Ejaculations to be used any time that Day, after the Solemnity is ended 313
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CONTENTS
OF THE
RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY DYING.
CHAP. I.
A GENERAL PREPARATION TOWARDS A HOLY AND BLESSED DEATH,
BY WAY OF CONSIDERATION.
SECTION I.
Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life.
SECTION II.
The Consideration reduced to Practice
SECTION III.
335
342
Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the
Objection of a Short Life
........ 349
BY WAY OF EXERCISE.
SECTION 1.
Three Precepts preparatory to a holy Death, to be practised in our
whole Life...
368
Of Daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health,
General Considerations to enforce the former Practices.
The Circumstances of a Dying Man's Sorrow and Danger.
CHAP. III.
OF THE STATE OF SICKNESS, AND THE TEMPTATIONS INCIDENT TO IT,
WITH THEIR PROPER REMEDIES.
Of the State of Sickness
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Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, Impatience.... 392
The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness, Fear of Death,
with its Remediesando ta magamine onun adoni è pe.. o.......an 423
Remedies against the Fear of Death, by way of Consideration ....... 425
SECTION VIII.
Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise..
SECTION IX.
General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe
and sanctified..
436
CHAP. IV.
OF THE PRACTICE OF THE GRACES PROPER TO THE STATE OF SICKNESS
WHICH A SICK MAN MAY PRACTISE ALONE.
SECTION I
Of the Practice of Patience
The Practice and Acts of Patience, by way of Rule
Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation
The Prayer to be said in the Beginning of a Sickness .....
445
446
452
... 456
An Act of Resignation, to be said by a Sick Person in all the evil Acci-
dents of his Sickness
A Prayer for the Grace of Patience
A Prayer to be said when the Sick Man takes Physic
Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith, in the Time of Sickness.
460
SECTION IV.
Acts of Faith by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick
Men in the Days of their Temptation
The Prayer for the Grace and Strengths of Faith
SECTION V.
Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the Time of Sickness... 467
SECTION VI.
Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness....
.. 479
Means of exciting Contrition, or Repentance of Sins, proceeding from
the Love of God...