Dedication

I.I. Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life

I.II. The Consideration reduced to Practice

I.III. Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days, and to take off the Objection of a short Life

I.IV. Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life

I.V. This Consideration reduced to Practice

II.I. Three Precepts preparatory to a Holy Death, to be practised in our whole Life

II.II. Of daily Examination of our Actions in the whole Course of our Health, preparatory to our death-bed

II.III. Of exercising Charity during our whole Life

II.IV. General Considerations to enforce the former Practices

III.I. Of the State of Sickness

III.II. Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Impatience

III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience

III.IV. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Consideration

III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise

III.VI. Advantages of Sickness

III.VII. The second Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: Fear of Death, with its Remedies

III.VIII. Remedies against Fear of Death, by way of Exercise

III.IX. General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness may become safe and sanctified

IV.I. Of the Practice of Patience