S.H.1825

OBSERVATIONS

OF A

PARISH PRIEST,

ON SCENES OF

Sickness and Death.

PUBLISHED WITH A VIEW TO THE

Temporal as well as Spiritual Comfort of
his Parishioners in such Seasons.

By JAMES DUKE COLERIDGE, L. L. B.
Vicar of Kenwyn and Kea, Cornwall, and Chaplain to the Lord
Bishop of Exeter.

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EN, that are in health, are severe exactors of patience at the
hands of them that are sick; and they usually judge it not
by terms of relation between GoD and the suffering Man,
but between him and the friends that stand by the bed-side.
"It will, therefore, be necessary, that he truly understand, to
"what duties and actions the patience of a sick man ought to
"extend."
BISHOP TAYLOR.

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TO THE

PARISHIONERS

KENWYN AND KEA.

MY BRETHREN,

IF the duties of a Pastor were confined to the public offices of religion-or, which comes to the same thing, if the spiritual wants of his flock required his attendance only in the days of their health and vigour -light indeed would his burthen be, compared with what it really is: but since, in the words of Bishop Burnet," he knows "but little of the Priestly office, who "thinks he has performed it in the pub"lic Ministrations of the Church,"-and

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