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ORDER

FOR THE

VISITATION OF THE SICK,

FROM THE

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER;

INTERSPERSED WITH

PRAYERS, EXHORTATIONS AND INERROGATORIES, TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS:

TOGETHER WITH SOME

OBSERVATIONS AND DIRECTIONS

WHICH MAY BE USEFUL
TOWARDS A DUE PERFORMANCE

OF THAT IMPORTANT DUTY:

DESIGNED FOR THE FOUR FIRST VISITS. With an APPENDIX, containing a FEW PRAYERS, which may, according to different Circumstances, be profitably used by the Sick themselves.

THE THIRD EDITION.

IN WHICH ARE ADDED,

Some OBSERVATIONS and VISITS, relative to the ADMINISTERING of the SACRAMENT of the LORD'S SUPPER to SICK PERSONS.

BY RICHARD MANT, D.D.

RECTOR OF ALL SAINTS, SOUTHAMPTON, AND OF FONTHILL BISHOP'S, WILTS.

In my Judgment no one can be more usefully employed, than in the due Discharge of the Office for the Visitation of the Sick, or in making a vrøper Preparation and Provision for it.

Dr. Dodwell's Sick Man's Companion."
Prelim. Dissert. P. xxxvii.

London:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,
NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD ;

By R. & R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell

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PREFACE.

SO many and such excellent treatises on the duty and manner of Visiting the Sick, having come from the pens of some of the most eminent divines of our church, it is with no small degree of anxiety for the reception of the following pages, compiled chiefly from some of them, that I submit them to publick perusal.

It is, I believe, generally allowed, that the Office for the Visitation of the Sick, is far from being so compleat and perfect as might be wished. "The few collects provided in our Liturgy for this service are indeed so excellent a pattern, that they are happiest who can best imitate them; but it is to be lamented, that there was not such a farther provision in that Office, as might have made the attempts of private A 2 persons

persons unnecessary." This is the opinion of one of those learned divines" alluded to above, and in the discharge of this important duty they who have been anxious to perform it, as they ought, have, by attempting to adhere to that form only, often experienced great difficulty. Το me. it has frequently occurred, that some improvement might be made upon it by not performing the whole service at one Visit, even if the person visited be not very sick; for if he be, we are then directed by the rubric to end the exhortation at a certain part of it. But as a Sick Person is apt to grow weary, and to be incapable of giving so strict attention to the Minister, as it is to be wished he should, any length of time; I have thought that the Office might very profitably be divided into three or four Visits, to be made at times so seasonable to the Sick Person, as to guard against that weariness which is

Dr. Dodwell. See his excellent Preliminary Dissertation.

generally

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