The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

Narrators: KHand, MaryAnn, Chris Bunn, Ed Humpal, Joseph Tabler, David Lawrence, OCTL7, TriciaG, Amelia Chesley, DeAnna Dailey, Sgrace, Tony Addison, Jill Preston, Anna Roberts

Number of Chapters: 37

Length: 10 hours and 22 minutes

Language: English

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)

Dedication (KHand)

I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life (MaryAnn)

I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice (MaryAnn)

I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life (KHand)

I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life (KHand)

I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice (KHand)

II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life (Chris Bunn)

II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed (MaryAnn)

II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life (Ed Humpal)

II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices (Ed Humpal)

III.I. Of the State of Sickness (Joseph Tabler)

III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience (David Lawrence)

III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience (OCTL7)

III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration (TriciaG)

III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise (Amelia Chesley)

III.VI. Advantages of Sickness (TriciaG)

III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies (DeAnna Dailey)

III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise (DeAnna Dailey)

III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified (DeAnna Dailey)

IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience (sgrace)

IV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation (TriciaG)

IV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness (TriciaG)

IV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation (Tony Addison)

IV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness (TriciaG)

IV.VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness (TriciaG)

IV.VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation (TriciaG)

IV.VIII. An Analysis or Resolution of the Decalogue, enumerating the Duties commanded, and the Sins forbidden in every Commandment, for the helping the Sick Man in making his Confession (TriciaG)

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

IV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of Recovery (Amelia Chesley)

V.I. General Observations (David Lawrence)

V.II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons (Jill Preston)

V.III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance (TriciaG)

V.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy Sacrament (TriciaG)

V.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of Souls (Anna Roberts)

V.VI. Considerations against Presumption (Anna Roberts)

V.VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick (MaryAnn)

V.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial (MaryAnn)

The audiobook The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying falls under the genres of Christianity - Other. It is written by Jeremy Taylor.

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