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Consolation - Early works to 1800
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The afflicted man's companion: or, a directory for families and persons afflicted with sickness or any other distress. With directions to the Sick, both Under and After their Affliction. Also to the Friends of the Sick, and others who visit them; And likewise to All, how to prepare both for Sickness and Death, and how to be exercised at the Time of Dying. With a collection of the Dying Words of many Choice and Eminent Saints. Necessary for Families. By the Reverend Mr. John Willison, Minister of the Gospel at Dundee.
Willison, John, 1680-1750.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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[T]he triumph of a Christian : contayning three excellent and heauenly treatises, 1. Iacobs wrestling with God, 2. The conduit of comfort, 3. A preparatiue for the Lords Supper : full of sweet consolations for all that desire the comfortable sweetnesse of Iesus Christ, and necessary for those vvho are troubled in conscience / written by that vvorthy man Mr. William Cowper.
Cowper, William, 1568-1619Date: 1609- Books
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Frederic and Pharamond: or, the consolations of human life. By John Langhorne, D.D.
Langhorne, John, 1735-1779.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Consolatory discourses, comprehending, I. The heart's ease; or a Remedy against Trouble. II. A Consolatory Discourse to prevent immoderate Grief for the Death of Friends. III. An Exhortation to those who are shut up from Society by Sickness. IV. A consolatory discourse in times of trouble and danger. By Symon Patrick, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Ely. The tenth edition. To which is added, a suitable collection of devotions, adapted to each of the discourses, from the best writers in that Way.
Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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A token for mourners: or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son : Wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F. preacher of the Gospel of Christ at Dartmouth in Devon.
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691Date: 1690