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12 mo . memorandum books in Willi&rns ' s patent bindingmvellarn , which may be had at most of the principal stationers , are perhaps the best . In this may be written a
few of the best general and occasional family prayers , as well of your own composition , as of others ; a lew good prayers suited to the several circumstances of sick persons ; at least one good form of baptism ; and an office for the burial of the dead . " You Will then
never need to . feel yourself at a loss , as many young ministers have often found themselves ^ if suddenly called npon to perform any of these offices . This you will find a great convenience , at least
till you have acquired an habitual readiness at extempore speaking , which , however , it must be acknowledged , is very desirable , not only in the case of prayers for the sick , but also to enable you to direct the admonitory part of your baptismal services , to the particular circumstances and character
of the parents . An excellent person , whom I am bound to remember with the highest veneration , was particularly skilful in this respect . For the visitation of the sick Bishop Taylor ' s Holy
Dying , Spinckes ' s Sick Man Visited , and Pa ley > s Clergyman ' s Companion , will furnish much useful matter , though they must be well purifiecl from what is otherwise There is an excellent " Prayer to oe read in the presence of a sick person ;* ' in the second vol . unie of the Posthumous Sermons
. of jVIr . John Holland , \ 753 which $ , v * Hi be veil worth ttfhile to copy u ^ % r ^ iil ^ cvu , I hope , be ever sh y in ybu ? enquiries aiter- or otters of services to , the sick iu
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Letter to a young Dissenting Minuter * 475
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your-congregation , or wait to be eailt-d for , in your provisional character , in the last stage of the disease , to , say over them th * ir last praver , and supply them w .. th their viaticum , a practice ,, winch has been too common in . Protestant , as well as Popish , churches , and which has had the effict of
rendering tbe vi ^ it of . tru * clergy - man , an event full of terror to the
sick person , as a signal of disniission to the medical attendants , and a decent way of informing the world at large , that all hope ot recovery is at an end . Hence it has become a customary obsf * rvation that the physician goes-, out
at one door , When the miri ^ tqr enters at the other . But * surely , a minister , if : he have ip / inia ^ ud during the sea $ a&s of -h ^ v ^^ , a proper intercourse witfe h )'< ptiqple , has many opportunities ut bt ^ ing eminently useful to tb ^ in iiu the hour of sickness . There , is no
occasion for his always c < , uifluciing himself as a mere profe > si nal man , but as a faithful triead and adviser ; and 11 he be av niaji of Coniiiion sense he will find many occasions , cm whjch his advice may be useful . Instead of hn » ig at opposition , the pbysit ^ i » and he if \ hry agree to understand each oth ^ r , imxy oftrn -render mutual assistance ; he nuiy dis _ covcm' circumstances . in tjit- sick man ' s mind , whicJit may be improved to promote t ( it htaJtii of his body , and turned , ^ in various wavs to his oivo ; an < i his family ' s advaivtage . Io 8 tea < 3 ! of nndcnii < r a sick room a . place of , . 4 *' iT (> r \ ind distress , or hioiiseH A * hiVkj * ( cr of terror ^ by comingiotu (^| ft . h j may often cqntcibutt ? MyuM ( 'lj ^ wfy . the scene * aad may 0 y ^^ fi , % k ^ ^ a place , in which he may spend mariv
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/27/
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