The Curate's Manual with Reference to the Sick and Dying: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Curate's Manual with Reference to the Sick and Dying, credited to John Stearne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Curate's Manual with Reference to the Sick and Dying by John Stearne. (Translated by Kirby Trimmer.) Read in English by InTheDesert. Whoever has well considered the various duties pertaining to the pastoral office, will readily acknowledge that scarcely any are more important, or more difiicult to be rightly discharged, than those which are due to the sick. They are duties which demand the greatest activity, and require the utmost discretion; and if altogether neglected, or carelessly and injudiciously discharged, most dangerous to the sick will be the consequences. If, therefore, I dilate upon this part of the sacerdotal office, and publish the result of my own experience, the information I have gained from converse with others, and that which I have derived from books, I shall, I think, be recompensed for my labours; and this the more so, because I am unacquainted with any work by which any one, though he should read with attention, may be sufficiently furnished for the performance of this important office. - Summary by First Chapter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Curate's Manual with Reference to the Sick and Dying
• Author credits: John Stearne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 3:52:22

Catalogue topics

• death
• bible
• theology
• sickness
• pastor
• christian ministry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - Preface — 3:08
2. 02 - The Occasion, Design, and Distribution of the Treatise — 3:20
3. 03 - Rules concerning those things with which the Curate should be previously furnished for the better discharge of the Office of Visiting the Sick — 32:20
4. 04 - Rules for discoursing with the Sick — 6:30
5. 05 - Rules concerning the Duties which the Curate should enjoin the Attendants of the Sick — 3:56
6. 06 - Rules for the Visitation of those with whom the Curate is but very little acquainted — 3:56
7. 07 - Rules for the Visitation of those who are troubled in Mind — 9:11
8. 08 - Rules for the Visitation of those who are recovering from Sickness — 6:24
9. 09 - Rules for the Visitation of those who are of tender years — 10:09
10. 10 - An Appendix, containing Rules for bringing the Sick to an acknowledgment of their Sins, and, when necessary, to a Confession of the same — 20:16
11. 11 - Two General Forms of Address, by the Rev. Benedict Scroggs — 5:27
12. 12 - The Order for the Visitation of the Sick — 17:14
13. 13 - Stonhouse's Method of Examination before receiving the Sacrament — 2:48
14. 14 - A Help for conversing on the Design of the Sacrament, and the Preparation for receiving it: from Stonhouse's Sick Man's Friend — 3:06
15. 15 - The Communion of the Sick — 17:31
16. 16 - The Ministration of Private Baptism in houses — 5:13
17. 17 - A Catalogue of the Sins of our Youth — 3:20
18. 18 - A Catalogue of the Sins of the Aged — 1:31
19. 19 - A Catalogue of the Sins of the Rich — 1:31
20. 20 - A Catalogue of the Sins of the Poor — 1:51
21. 21 - A Catalogue of Sins not included in the foregoing, and to which all sorts and conditions of men are by nature inclined — 3:38
22. 22 - The First Table of the Decalogue — 1:40
23. 23 - The Second Table of the Decaloge — 0:57
24. 24 - General Prayers for the Sick — 3:53

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