Illustrious His GRACE JAMES Duke of Ormond, &c. Lord Lieutenant General, and This Manual of Devotions Is Humbly Dedicated and Presented, By His GRACE'S Most Dutiful and Obliged Chaplain, William Afshetons The PREFACE. Aving formerly Published Daily Devotions, and Devotions for the Lord's Day, with Devotions in Times of Trouble and Affliction, for the Use of a Countrey Parish: as a further Instance of my Duty, in Instructing those committed to my Charge, I thought it might be useful, in the fame familiar Manner, give some Direction and Affistance to Sick and Dying Perfons. That when the Extremity of Age, the Weakness and Decays of Nature, or the Violence of a Disease, do admonish A 3 to them them of their approaching DifSolution; they may then be Instructed what to Do; How to behave themselves both to God and Man; in what Manner, and with what Circumstances, they may think of Leaving this World, before they Enter into the next. Accordingly, through Divine Assistance, I do now Publish (what fome Time fince was Promised) A Method of Devotion for Sick and Dying Perfons; With Particular Directions, from the Beginning of Sickness to the Hour of Death. I have treated this Subject with the greatest Plainness; and have endeavoured to be faithful to |