Treatise on Death

by Otho Wermullerus

56 chapters3h 13mEnglish1844

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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

Chapters (56)

1Preface

286

2Declaring What Death Is

205

3That the Time of Death is Uncertain

4That It is God Which Hath Laid the Burden of Death Upon Us

5That God Sendeth Death Because of Sin

141

6That God Turneth Death Unto Good

7That Death in Itself is Grievous to the Body and the Sou

408

8That We All Commonly are Afraid of Death

174

9The Commodity of Death, When It Delivereth Us from This Short Transitory Time

142

10Another Commodity, When Death Delivereth Us from This Miserable

364

11Witness That This Life is Miserable

113

12That Consideration of Death Beforehand is Profitable to All Virtues

105

13In Death We Learn the Right Knowledge of Ourselves and of God, and are Occasioned to Give Ourselves Unto God

100

14That the Dead Ceaseth from Sin

148

15That 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

16That the Dead Obtaineth Salvation

17Similitudes, That Death is Wholesome

325

18Witness That Death is Wholesome

19That Death Cannot Be Avoided, Item, of Companions of Them That Die

205

20Of Natural Help in Danger of Death

116

21That God is Able and Will Help for Christ’s Sake

505

22That God Hath Promised His Help and Comfort

208

23God Setteth to His Own Helping Hand, in Such Ways and at Such Time, as is Best of All

202

24Examples of God's Help

25That It is Necessary to Prepare for This Journey

26Provision Concerning Temporal Goods, Children, and Friends, Which Must Be Left Behind

212

27Preparation Concerning Ghostly Matters; with What Cogitations the Mind Ought Most to Be Exercised

205

28Of Repentance and Sorrow for Sin

29Of True Faith

606

30Of Hope

31Of the Sacraments

130

32Of Prayer

148

33The Form of Prayer

324

34A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving

129

35That the Prayer is Heard

36That the Word of God is to Be Practised and Used

37Amendment of Life Necessary

159

38Exhortation Unto Patience

247

39The Original and Fruit of Patience

40That a Man, While He is yet in Health, Ought to Prepare Himself Beforehand

372

41That the Foresaid Things Ought by Time, and in Due Season, to Be Taken in Hand

380

42How the Sick Ought to Be Spoken Unto, If Need Shall Require

706

43Of the Burial, and What is to Be Done Towards Those That are Departed Hence

244

44How They Ought to Be Comforted, Whose Dear Friends are Dead

425

45That Unto Such as Die It is Profitable to Depart Out of This Life

403

46What Profit the Death of Friends Bringeth to Such as are Left Behind Have

341

47Companions That Suffer Like Heaviness of Heart

100

48Through God’s Help All Heart-Sorrow is Eased

147

49We Must Furnish Ourselves with Prayer and Patience

209

50Ensamples of Patience in Like Case

279

51The Commodity of Patience

151

52We Ought So to Love Our Children and Friends, That We May Forsake Them

110

53Of the Death of Young Persons in Especial

362

54Of the Death of the Aged

55Of Strange Death

158

56An 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

203

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