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Death - Religious aspects - Early works to 1800

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    Ane fruitful and comfortable exhortatioun anent death.

    | James Melville | Date: Anno Do. 1597
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    Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov'd unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations : but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen.

    | Owen, John (Chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthin) | Date: 1680
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    Here begynneth a lytell treatyse of the dyenge creature : enfected with sykenes vncurable with many sorowfull complayntes.

    | Date: [1506]
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    [The dyenge creature].

    | Date: [anno d[omi]ni. M.CCCCC.vii. [1507]]
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    Preparation for death : Being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper, of which she died. By William Wake, M.A.

    | William Wake | Date: 1688
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Christian life - Early works to 1800
Salvation - Early works to 1800
Death - Early works to 1800

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