15.4:55 Illuftrious His GRACE JAMES Duke of Ormond, &c. Lord Lieutenant General, and This Manual of Devotions Is Humbly Dedicated and Presented, By His GRACE'S Moft Dutiful and Obliged Chaplain, William Affheton. The PREFACE. Aving formerly Published Daily Devotions, and Devotions for the Lord's Day, with Devotions in Times of Trouble and Affliction, for the Ufe of a Countrey Parifh as a further Inftance of my Duty, in Inftructing thofe committed to my Charge thought it might be useful, in the fame familiar Manner, to give fome Direction and Affiftance to Sick and Dying Perfons. I That when the Extremi ty of Age, the Weakness and Decays of Nature, or the Violence of a Difeafe, do admonish A 3 them them of their approaching DifJolution; they may then be Inftructed 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 Affiftance, I do now Publish (what fome Time fince was Promifed) 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 bave endeavoured to be faithful to |