Treatise on Death

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jan 28, 2024

In Category - Christianity - Other

Authors: Otho Wermullerus In Year : 1844

Book Language: English

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Preface
Declaring What Death Is
That the Time of Death is Uncertain
That It is God Which Hath Laid the Burden of Death Upon Us
That God Sendeth Death Because of Sin
That God Turneth Death Unto Good
That Death in Itself is Grievous to the Body and the Sou
That We All Commonly are Afraid of Death
The Commodity of Death, When It Delivereth Us from This Short Transitory Time
Another Commodity, When Death Delivereth Us from This Miserable
Witness That This Life is Miserable
That Consideration of Death Beforehand is Profitable to All Virtues
In Death We Learn the Right Knowledge of Ourselves and of God, and are Occasioned to Give Ourselves Unto God
That the Dead Ceaseth from Sin
That the Dead is Delivered from This Vicious World, Having not Only This Advantage, That He Sinneth No More, but also is Discharged from Other Sins
That the Dead Obtaineth Salvation
Similitudes, That Death is Wholesome
Witness That Death is Wholesome
That Death Cannot Be Avoided, Item, of Companions of Them That Die
Of Natural Help in Danger of Death
That God is Able and Will Help for Christ’s Sake
That God Hath Promised His Help and Comfort
God Setteth to His Own Helping Hand, in Such Ways and at Such Time, as is Best of All
Examples of God's Help
That It is Necessary to Prepare for This Journey
Provision Concerning Temporal Goods, Children, and Friends, Which Must Be Left Behind
Preparation Concerning Ghostly Matters; with What Cogitations the Mind Ought Most to Be Exercised
Of Repentance and Sorrow for Sin
Of True Faith
Of Hope
Of the Sacraments
Of Prayer
The Form of Prayer
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving
That the Prayer is Heard
That the Word of God is to Be Practised and Used
Amendment of Life Necessary
Exhortation Unto Patience
The Original and Fruit of Patience
That a Man, While He is yet in Health, Ought to Prepare Himself Beforehand
That the Foresaid Things Ought by Time, and in Due Season, to Be Taken in Hand
How the Sick Ought to Be Spoken Unto, If Need Shall Require
Of the Burial, and What is to Be Done Towards Those That are Departed Hence
How They Ought to Be Comforted, Whose Dear Friends are Dead
That Unto Such as Die It is Profitable to Depart Out of This Life
What Profit the Death of Friends Bringeth to Such as are Left Behind Have
Companions That Suffer Like Heaviness of Heart
Through God’s Help All Heart-Sorrow is Eased
We Must Furnish Ourselves with Prayer and Patience
Ensamples of Patience in Like Case
The Commodity of Patience
We Ought So to Love Our Children and Friends, That We May Forsake Them
Of the Death of Young Persons in Especial
Of the Death of the Aged
Of Strange Death
An Exhortation Written by the Lady Jane, the Night Before She Suffered, in the End of the New Testament in Greek, which She Sent to Her Sister Lady Katherine

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