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Curate's Manual with Reference to the Sick and Dying

Name: Curate's Manual with Reference to the Sick and Dying
Author: John Sterne

John Sterne

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Preface (3:08)
The Occasion, Design, and Distribution of the Treatise (3:20)
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)
Rules for discoursing with the Sick (6:30)
Rules concerning the Duties which the Curate should enjoin the Attendants of the Sick (3:56)
Rules for the Visitation of those with whom the Curate is but very little acquainted (3:56)
Rules for the Visitation of those who are troubled in Mind (9:11)
Rules for the Visitation of those who are recovering from Sickness (6:24)
Rules for the Visitation of those who are of tender years (10:09)
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)
Two General Forms of Address, by the Rev. Benedict Scroggs (5:27)
The Order for the Visitation of the Sick (17:14)
Stonhouse's Method of Examination before receiving the Sacrament (2:48)
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)
The Communion of the Sick (17:31)
The Ministration of Private Baptism in houses (5:13)
A Catalogue of the Sins of our Youth (3:20)
A Catalogue of the Sins of the Aged (1:31)
A Catalogue of the Sins of the Rich (1:31)
A Catalogue of the Sins of the Poor (1:51)
A Catalogue of Sins not included in the foregoing, and to which all sorts and conditions of men are by nature inclined (3:38)
The First Table of the Decalogue (1:40)
The Second Table of the Decaloge (0:57)
General Prayers for the Sick (3:53)
A Prayer under severe Pain (0:54)
A Prayer when Sickness long continues (1:10)
A prayer when the Sick cannot sleep (0:58)
A Prayer when Danger is apprehended from excessive Sleep (1:04)
A Prayer for the Sick, when in any way deprived of his Senses and Reason (1:22)
A Prayer for one who has received any bodily Hurt (1:26)
A Prayer for a Woman after Child-birth (0:56)
A Prayer for one in Despair (1:06)
A Short Litany (2:22)
The Parable of the Ten Virgins (2:01)
The Parable of the Talents (2:58)
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (3:36)
The Parable of the Lost Sheep (1:06)
The Parable of the Importunate Widow (1:27)
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (1:29)
The Parable of the King who took an account of his Servants, and punished him who showed no mercy to his fellow-servant (2:25)
The Parable of the Good Samaritan (2:07)
Our Lord's description of the Last Judgement (2:31)
The most effectual method of resisting Temptation (3:59)
The Promise that the Comforter shall come and abide for ever with Christ's Disciples (1:08)
That Christian Mourners should not sorrow without hope for the dead (1:25)
The Parable of the Ten Lepers (1:59)
The Happy Change which the Resurrection of Christ will effect in the Condition of the Saints (4:52)
Devotional Poetry (19:11)