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The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying; Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue to Be Used by Sick and Dying Persons, or by Others Standing in Their A

The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying; Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue to Be Used by Sick and Dying Persons, or by Others Standing in Their A

Taylor, Jeremy

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ISBN10: 1150790768
ISBN13: 9781150790768
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... suffering trouble, fears of relapse and the little relics of a storm. 11. While we hear or use or think of these remedies, part of the sickness is gone away, and all of it is passing. And if by such instruments we stand armed and ready dressed beforehand, we shall avoid the mischiefs of amazements and surprise; while the accidents of sickness are such as were expected, and against which we stood in readiness, with our spirits contracted, instructed, and put upon the defensive. 12. But our Patience will be the better secured, if we consider, that it is not violently tempted by the usual arrests of sickness; for Patience is with reason demanded while the sickness is tolerable, that is, so long as the evil is not too great; but if it be also eligible, and have in it some degrees of good, our Patience will have in it the less difficulty and the greater necessity. This therefore will be a new stock of consideration: sickness is in many degrees eligible to many men, and to many purposes. SECT. VI. ADVANTAGES OF SICKNESS. 1. I Considee one of the greatest felicities of Heaven consists in an immunity from sin: then we shall love God without mixtures of malice; then we shall enjoy without envy; then we shall see fuller vessels running over with glory, and crowned with bigger circles: and this we shall behold without spilling from our eyes (those vessels of joy and grief) any sign of anger, trouble, or a repining spirit: our passions shall be pure, our Charity without fear, our desire without lust, our possessions all our own; and all in the inheritance of Jesus, in the richest soil of God's eternal kingdom. Now half of this reason, which makes Heaven so happy by being innocent, is also in the state of sickness; making the sorrows of old age smooth and the groans of a si...

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