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Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

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)

Year of Publication: 1651Genres: Christianity - Other

Running Time: 10 hours 22 minutes 03 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Dedication KHand	23:30
2	I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life MaryAnn	17:31
3	I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice MaryAnn	19:16
4	I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life KHand	22:02
5	I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life KHand	13:24
6	I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice KHand	6:57
7	II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life Chris Bunn	12:07
8	II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed MaryAnn	21:07
9	II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life Ed Humpal	6:55
10	II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices Ed Humpal	10:39
11	III.I. Of the State of Sickness Joseph Tabler	8:53
12	III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience David Lawrence	6:06
13	III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience OCTL7	6:06
14	III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration TriciaG	20:46
15	III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise Amelia Chesley	11:08
16	III.VI. Advantages of Sickness TriciaG	37:38
17	III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies DeAnna Dailey	13:24
18	III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise DeAnna Dailey	14:19
19	III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified DeAnna Dailey	19:48
20	IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience sgrace	19:23
21	IV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation TriciaG	19:21
22	IV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness TriciaG	10:55
23	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	9:58
24	IV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness TriciaG	12:55
25	IV.VI. Rules for the Practice of Repentance in Sickness TriciaG	23:05
26	IV.VII. Acts of Repentance, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation TriciaG	15:06
27	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	30:20
28	IV.IX. Of the Sick Man's Practice of Charity and Justice, by way of Rule TriciaG	11:56
29	IV.X. Acts of Charity, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation; which may be also used for Thanksgiving in case of Recovery Amelia Chesley	8:13
30	V.I. General Observations David Lawrence	5:56
31	V.II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons Jill Preston	11:13
32	V.III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance TriciaG	33:32
33	V.IV. Of Ministering to the Restitution and Pardon, or Reconciliation of the Sick Person, by administering the holy Sacrament TriciaG	25:19
34	V.V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as he is the Physician of Souls Anna Roberts	28:43
35	V.VI. Considerations against Presumption Anna Roberts	7:04
36	V.VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick MaryAnn	29:52
37	V.VIII. A Peroration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our departed Friends after Death, in order to their Will and Burial MaryAnn	27:36