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In The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, Taylor examines and reflects on many aspects connected with death and dying. His goal is to provide “considerations concerning preparation for a holy and blessed death.” Taylor structures the book by offering a reflection on a particular aspect associated with death (e.g., the shortness of one’s life), followed by practical advice based on that reflection....

and dishonour, and his body must be the inheritance of worms, and his soul must be what he pleases, even as a man makes it here by his living good or bad. I have read of a young hermit who, being passionately in love with a young lady, could not, by all the arts of religion and mortification, suppress the trouble of that fancy, till at last, being told that she was dead, and had been buried about fourteen days, he went secretly to her vault, and with the skirt of his mantle wiped the moisture from
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