CONTENTS. The Occasion, Design, and Distribution of the Treatise Rules concerning those things with which the Curate should be Rules for discoursing with the Sick.. PAGE 1 Rules for the Visitation of those who are troubled in Mind.... Rules for the Visitation of those who are recovering from Rules for the Visitation of those who are of tender years An Appendix, containing Rules for bringing the Sick to an Two General Forms of Address, by the Rev. Benedict Scroggs 111 The Order for the Visitation of the Sick Stonhouse's Method of Examination before receiving the . ..... 117 PATE A Catalogue of Sins not included in the foregoing, and to which all sorts and conditions of men are by nature inclined .... The First Table of the Decalogue The Second Table of the Decalogue of the King who took an account of his Servants, The most effectual method of resisting Temptation The Promise that the Comforter shall come and abide for ever PAGE THE CURATE'S MANUAL. A Treatise concerning the Visitation of the Sick, or those Parochial Duties which have reference to the Sick and Dying. of this work. WHOEVER has well considered the various The occasion duties pertaining to the pastoral office, will readily acknowledge that scarcely any are more important, or more difficult 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 B |