The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, credited to Jeremy Taylor, 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 Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor. Read in English by volunteer readers. Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional quality; and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, and Edmund Gosse for its literary qualities. Holy Dying is meant to instruct the reader in the "means and instruments" of preparing for a blessed death, written in a time when death was a constant companion to life and not to be encountered without being ready for it. It assumes illness and a death-bed, with recommended meditations and prayers for the sick, the family, and the clergyman attending to the dying one. (Summary by TriciaG, with help from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
• Author credits: Jeremy Taylor
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 10:22:03

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• death
• prayer
• meditations
• Church of England
• dying
• comfort

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 00 - Dedication — 23:30
2. 01 - I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life — 17:31
3. 02 - I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice — 19:16
4. 03 - I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life — 22:02
5. 04 - I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life — 13:24
6. 05 - I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice — 6:57
7. 06 - II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life — 12:07
8. 07 - II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed — 21:07
9. 08 - II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life — 6:55
10. 09 - II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices — 10:39
11. 10 - III.I. Of the State of Sickness — 8:53
12. 11 - III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience — 6:06
13. 12 - III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience — 6:06
14. 13 - III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration — 20:46
15. 14 - III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise — 11:08
16. 15 - III.VI. Advantages of Sickness — 37:38
17. 16 - III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies — 13:24
18. 17 - III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise — 14:19
19. 18 - III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified — 19:48
20. 19 - IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience — 19:22
21. 20 - IV.II. Acts of Patience, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation — 19:21
22. 21 - IV.III. Of the Practice of the Grace of Faith in the time of Sickness — 10:55
23. 22 - IV.IV. Acts of Faith, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation, to be said by Sick Men in the Days of their Temptation — 9:58
24. 23 - IV.V. Of the Practice of the Grace of Repentance in the time of Sickness — 12:55

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