Excerpt from The Book of the Craft of Dying, and Other Early English Tracts Concerning Death: Taken From the Manuscripts and Printed Books in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries; Now First Done Into Modern Spelling and Edited It offers to the Christian reader A Commendation of Death, followed by chapters on the Temptations to which the last hours are subject, certain questions to ask in helping those that are near the end, certain suitable prayers for them, and an instruction - for those that shall die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.