Volume II. Religious, Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
General Editor Note
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Doctrines: Theological Words Against Death
1. Charles Drelincourt, The Christian Defence Against the Fears of Death, (Liverpool: Nuttall, Fisher, and Co, 1810 [1651]), pp. 42-49.
2. John Angell James, The Antidote of Death, (London: Hamilton Adams, 1856), pp. 3-12, 17-26.
3. Henry Mitchinson, The Death of the Righteous, (London: Simpkin Marshall, 1859), pp.3-14.
4. John Asgill, An Argument to Prove that Death is not Obligatory on Christians, (London: Ennis Bros, 1875), pp. 62-66; 125-126.
5. Stewart Salmond, 'The Doctrine of Final Destinies', The Christian Doctrine of Immortality, (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1901), pp. 353; 389-394.
6. Edward Cure, Sudden Death: Is It to be Deprecated? (London: Rivington, 1883), pp. 3-15.
7. William Knox, A Clerical Symposium on what are the Foundations of the Belief in the Immortality of Man, (James Nisbet and Co., 1885), pp. 30-62.
8. Thomas Erskine, The Brazen Serpent; or, Life Coming Through Death, (Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1879), pp. 84-95, 126-137.
9. James Fleming, Recognition in Eternity, (London: Skeffington, 1899), pp. 3-12.
Part 2. Devotions: Coping with Death, Transforming Grief
10. Richard Whately, A View of the Scripture Revelations concerning a Future State laid before his Parishioners by a Country Pastor, (London: Parker & Sons, 1882), pp. 88-93.
11. Francis Paget, 'The Lord's Prayer: A Manual for the Mourner' in The Living and the Dead: A Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial Service, (Cambridge: John Thomas Walters, 1845), pp. 193-207.
12. Richard Price, On the Reasons for Expecting that Virtuous Men Shall Meet after Death in a State of Happiness, (London: Unknown, 1798), pp. 3-13, 21-27.
13. William Dealtry, The Character and Happiness of them that Die in the Lord, (London: Hatchard & Son, 1822), pp. 20-47.
14. James Montgomery, A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, (Philadelphia: J. Ditson & Co, 1883), pp. 3-5.
15. Jeremy Taylor, Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, (Longmans, Green, and Co, 1850 [1650]), pp. 9-34, 35-50, 68-78.
16. Anon, A Token for Mourners, with a Selection of Scripture Promises, Relative to the Troubles of Life, (Glasgow: Booksellers, 1855), pp. 18-23.
17. John Keble, 'The Burial of the Dead' in The Christian Year, (London: Dent & Co, 1900 [1827]), pp. 273-274.
18. Anon, The Christian's Consolation in the Hour of Domestic Distress, (London: F and C Rivington, 1793), pp. iii-iv; 30-43.
19. William Alexander, 'The Mystery of Sickness' in The Great Question and Other Sermons, (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885), pp. 30-44.
20. Samuel Johnson, 'His Wife's Death', in Elton Trueblood (Ed.), Doctor Johnson's Prayers, (London: SCM Press, 1947 [1782]), pp. 79-85.
Part 3. Duties in Common and Private Contexts
21. Thomas Scott, The Duty and Advantage of Remembering Deceased Ministers, (London: J. Seely, 1808), pp. 1-35.
22. James Fleming, The Forsaken Hero, (London: Larner and Knight, 1885), pp. 3-12.
23. Noah Miles, 'A Sermon on the Death of George Washington, late President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America' (Amherst, MA: S. Preston, 1800), pp. 5-16.
24. Charles Vaughan, The Mourning of the Land and the Mourning of its Families, (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1861), pp. 5-17.
25. John Miller, Things After Death: Three Chapters on the Intermediate State, (London: J. Rivington, 1848), pp. 41-64.
26. Henry Liddon, Life in Death: A Sermon at the Funeral of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury (Salisbury: Brown & Co., 1869), pp. 3-15.
27. Francis Paget, 'Faith, Patience, Thankfulness: The Graces of Bereavement' in The Living and the Dead: A Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial Service, (Cambridge: John T. Walters, 1845), pp. 41-58.
28. James MacGregor, The State of the Christian Dead, (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1897), pp. 3-22.
29. Nicholas Chevalier,'Service of Thanksgiving for the Recovery of Edward, Prince of Wales, from Sickness and Mortal Danger' (1872)
Part 4. Dramatic Discourses
30. John Macgowan, Death, a Vision; or, the Solemn Departure of Saints and Sinners, Represented under the Similitude of a Dream, (London, W. Baynes, 1796), pp. 46-56.
31. Eli Forbes, Sorrow Balanced with Joy: A Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. Benjamin Tappan, (London: T. Cushing, 1790), pp. 5-15.
32. Benjamin Mardon, The Evanescence of Human Glory (London: Smallfield, 1837), pp. 5-29.
33. John G. Hewlett, The Sunset of Youth, (London: Ward, 1847), pp. 7-35.
34. Anon, Life Beyond the Grave, as Described by a Spirit, through a Writing Medium, (London: E.W. Allen, 1876), pp. 40-49.
35. E.B. Crawford, A Dialogue Between Death and the Sinner, (Dublin: Unknown, 1870), p.1.
36. Elizabeth Rowe, Friendship in Death: Letters from the Dead to the Living, (W. Nicholson, 1808), pp. 1-4; 9-12; 25-30.
37. H.O.F, The Hour of Death and the Invisible World, (London: James Nisbet & Co, 1882), pp. 1-13, 31-41.
38. George MacDonald, Letters from Hell, (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1885), pp. 1-14.
39. Robert Rogers, 'What Kind of Place is Heaven?' in Views of the New Heaven: Lectures on the Inhabitants, Phenomena, and Order of the World to Come, (London: James Speirs, 1902), pp. 47-68, 128-149
40. Thomas Rowlandson, The English Dance of Death, (London: Ackermann, 1816), pp. 290-295.
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