A Treatise on Death


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A most fruitful, pithy and learned treatise, how a Christian man ought to behave himself in the danger of death and how they are to be relieved and comforted whose dear friends are departed out of this world, most necessary for this unfortunate age and sorrowful days.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth in me hath everlasting life. (John 6) - Summary from Title Page (3 hr 13 min)

Chapters

Preface 4:46 Read by InTheDesert
Declaring What Death Is 3:25 Read by InTheDesert
That the Time of Death is Uncertain 0:59 Read by InTheDesert
That It is God Which Hath Laid the Burden of Death Upon Us 1:23 Read by InTheDesert
That God Sendeth Death Because of Sin 2:21 Read by InTheDesert
That God Turneth Death Unto Good 1:03 Read by InTheDesert
That Death in Itself is Grievous to the Body and the Sou 6:48 Read by InTheDesert
That We All Commonly are Afraid of Death 2:54 Read by InTheDesert
The Commodity of Death, When It Delivereth Us from This Short Transitory Time 2:22 Read by InTheDesert
Another Commodity, When Death Delivereth Us from This Miserable 6:04 Read by InTheDesert
Witness That This Life is Miserable 1:53 Read by InTheDesert
That Consideration of Death Beforehand is Profitable to All Virtues 1:45 Read by InTheDesert
In Death We Learn the Right Knowledge of Ourselves and of God, and are Occasion… 1:40 Read by InTheDesert
That the Dead Ceaseth from Sin 2:28 Read by InTheDesert
That the Dead is Delivered from This Vicious World, Having not Only This Advant… 1:36 Read by InTheDesert
That the Dead Obtaineth Salvation 1:35 Read by InTheDesert
Similitudes, That Death is Wholesome 5:25 Read by InTheDesert
Witness That Death is Wholesome 1:04 Read by InTheDesert
That Death Cannot Be Avoided, Item, of Companions of Them That Die 3:25 Read by InTheDesert
Of Natural Help in Danger of Death 1:56 Read by InTheDesert
That God is Able and Will Help for Christ’s Sake 8:25 Read by InTheDesert
That God Hath Promised His Help and Comfort 3:28 Read by InTheDesert
God Setteth to His Own Helping Hand, in Such Ways and at Such Time, as is Best … 3:22 Read by InTheDesert
Examples of God's Help 1:19 Read by InTheDesert
That It is Necessary to Prepare for This Journey 1:36 Read by InTheDesert
Provision Concerning Temporal Goods, Children, and Friends, Which Must Be Left … 3:32 Read by InTheDesert
Preparation Concerning Ghostly Matters; with What Cogitations the Mind Ought Mo… 3:25 Read by InTheDesert
Of Repentance and Sorrow for Sin 1:25 Read by InTheDesert
Of True Faith 10:06 Read by InTheDesert
Of Hope 0:58 Read by InTheDesert
Of the Sacraments 2:10 Read by InTheDesert
Of Prayer 2:28 Read by InTheDesert
The Form of Prayer 5:24 Read by InTheDesert
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving 2:09 Read by InTheDesert
That the Prayer is Heard 1:21 Read by InTheDesert
That the Word of God is to Be Practised and Used 0:59 Read by InTheDesert
Amendment of Life Necessary 2:39 Read by InTheDesert
Exhortation Unto Patience 4:07 Read by InTheDesert
The Original and Fruit of Patience 1:26 Read by InTheDesert
That a Man, While He is yet in Health, Ought to Prepare Himself Beforehand 6:12 Read by InTheDesert
That the Foresaid Things Ought by Time, and in Due Season, to Be Taken in Hand 6:20 Read by InTheDesert
How the Sick Ought to Be Spoken Unto, If Need Shall Require 11:46 Read by InTheDesert
Of the Burial, and What is to Be Done Towards Those That are Departed Hence 4:04 Read by InTheDesert
How They Ought to Be Comforted, Whose Dear Friends are Dead 7:05 Read by InTheDesert
That Unto Such as Die It is Profitable to Depart Out of This Life 6:43 Read by InTheDesert
What Profit the Death of Friends Bringeth to Such as are Left Behind Have 5:41 Read by InTheDesert
Companions That Suffer Like Heaviness of Heart 1:40 Read by InTheDesert
Through God’s Help All Heart-Sorrow is Eased 2:27 Read by InTheDesert
We Must Furnish Ourselves with Prayer and Patience 3:29 Read by InTheDesert
Ensamples of Patience in Like Case 4:39 Read by InTheDesert
The Commodity of Patience 2:31 Read by InTheDesert
We Ought So to Love Our Children and Friends, That We May Forsake Them 1:50 Read by InTheDesert
Of the Death of Young Persons in Especial 6:02 Read by InTheDesert
Of the Death of the Aged 1:20 Read by InTheDesert
Of Strange Death 2:38 Read by InTheDesert
An Exhortation Written by the Lady Jane, the Night Before She Suffered, in the … 3:22 Read by InTheDesert