Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 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.
Chapter II. A General Preparation Towards a Holy and Blessed Death, by Way of Exercise.
Section I. Three Precepts Preparatory to a Holy Death, to Be Practised in Our Whole Life.
Section III. Of Excercising Charity During Our Whole Life.
Section IV. General Considerations to Enforce the Former Practices.
Section I. Of the State of Sickness.
Section II. Of the First Temptation Proper to the State of Sickness — Impatience.
Section III. Constituent or Integral Parts of Patience.
Section IV. Remedies Againt Impatience, by Way of Consideration.
Section V. Remedies Against Impatience, by Way of Exercise.
Section VI. Advantages of Sickness.
Section VIII. Remedies Against Fear of Death, by Way of Exercise.
Section IX. General Rules and Excercises Whereby Our Sickness May Become Safe and Sanctified.
Section I. Of the Practice of Patience.
Section II. Acts of Patience by Way of Prayer and Ejaculation.
Section III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the Time of Sickness.>
Section V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the Time of Sickness.
Section IX. Of the Sick Mans Practice of Charity and Justice, by Way of Rule.
Section II. Rules for the Manner of Visitation of Sick Persons.
Section III. Of Ministering in the Sick Man's Confession of Sins and Repentance.
Section V. Of Ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man, as He Is the Physician of Souls.
Section VI. Considerations against Presumption.
Section VII. Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation of the Sick.