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THE

CHRISTIAN'S DEFENCE

AGAINST THE

FEARS OF DEATH:

WITH

Directions how to die well.

Written.originally in French, by:

CHARLES DRELINCOURT.

Abridged from the laft French Edition) by

J. MILL BANK, M. A.

To which is prefixed,

An Account of Mrs VEAL'S APPARITION
to Mrs BARGRAVE,

LONDON,
Printed for J. DAVIDSON in the Strand. 1754.

CHAP, I.

D

Eath is truly the King of Terrors to those

who have no hope in God.

CHAP. II. All the Heathen Philofophy affords no true

or folid Comfort against the Terrors of Death..

CHAP. III. We are to encounter feveral Kinds of

Death.

CHAP. IV. Our Lord Jefus Chrift hath redeemed us

from eternal Death, and gradually delivers us from

Spiritual.

CHAP. V. Why we are fubject to temporal Death; and
how we come off Conquerors through Chrift.
CHAP. VI. Whence the Terrors of Death proceed.

Remedies against the Terrors of Death.

-CHAP. VII. First Remedy. Think of it often.
CHAP. VIII. Second Remedy. Expect it every Hour.

CHAP. IX. Third Remedy. Confider that the Time and
Manner of our Death are in God's Hand..

CHAP. X. Fourth Remedy. Difengage your Heart from

the World.

CHAP. XI. Fifth Remedy. Forfake Vice, and apply
yourself to the Practice of true Holiness.

CHAP. XII. Sixth Remedy. Rely on Divine Providence..

Comforts against the Terrors of Death.

CHAP. XIII. Firft Comfort. God will not forfake us

in our Afflictions.

CHAP. XIV. Second Comfort. Confider God is a kind
Father, and depend upon his infinite Mercy.

CHAP. XV. Third Comfort. Let a Senfe of the Death

and Paffion of our Lord Jefus Chrift be continually

upon your Mind, and rely on the Merits of his Suf-

ferings.

CHAP. XVI Fourth Comfort.

CHAP. XVII. Fifth Comfort.

Dead,

Chrift in the Sepulchre.

Chrift rifen from the

Chrift afcended up in-

CHAP. XVIII. Sixth Comfort.
to Heaven, and fitting at the right Hand of God.

CHAP. XIX. Seventh Comfort. Our strict and infepa-
rable Union with Jefus Chrift by the Holy Ghost, and
the first Fruits of our bleffed Immortality.

CHAP. XX. Eighth Comfort.

Death frees us from

the reigning Evils to which we are expofed in this

World.

CHAP. XXI. Ninth Comfort. Death fets us at large

from Sin, which we fee reigning in the World, and

from the remains of our Corruption.

CHAP. XXII. Tenth Comfort. The Glory and Háp-

pinefs of our Souls at their Departure out of the Body.

CHAP. XXIII. Eleventh Comfort. The glorious Re-

furrection of our Bodies.

CHAP. XXIV. Twelfth Comfort. The Deftruction of

Death, and the eternal and most bloffed Life which

we fhall enjoy both in Soul and Body, after the Re-

furrection.