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• Waldo, Tell Me About Dying, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

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• Prayers and acts of virtue and rules for the visitation of the sick, and offices proper for that ministry (Thomas Wardle, 1831), by Jeremy Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Derniers moments de Duplessis-Mornay, Gigord, Rivet, Dumoulin, Drelincourt et Rieu (Chez M.me Susanne Guers, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La douce et sainte mort. (Perisse frères, 1853), by Jean Crasset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and the end of time, in two discourses: the first on redemption of time, the second on the consideration of our latter end. With an account of the life of the author. (G. & R. King, 1855), by John Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of dying happily (s.n.], 1706) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to a household on the death of on of its members, January 15th, 1871 / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (Dalton & Lucy, Booksellers to the Queen, and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 28, Cockspur Street, 1871), by George William Lyttelton Lyttelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rule and exercises of holy dying : in which are described the means and instruments of preparing ourselves and others respectively for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sickness, together with prayers and acts of virtue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance ; and, Rules for the visitation of the sick, and offices proper for that ministry ; to which is added, The golden grove (Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808), by Jeremy Taylor and Thomas Thirlwall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief treatise on death, philosophically, morally, and practically, considered (J. Mawman, Poultry by J. Adlard, 1805), by Robert Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character and reward of a good servant of Christ (Butler, printer, 1813), by John Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Closing scenes of human life (Carlton & Phillips, 1854), by Daniel P. Kidder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Muffled drum. (Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, 1861), by South Carolina Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dying with and without religion (Lane and Scott, 1851), by D. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Tod, das Todtenreich und der Zustand der von hier abgeschiedenen Seelen (Wiegandt und Grieben, 1854), by Val. Ulrich Maywahlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The joy of faith in the shadow of death : addressed to the respectable family of the Blakers of Bolney, in Sussex, upon the death of an indulgent husband, a tender father, and an honest believer in Christ (London : Printed for, and sold by, E. Huntington, Bookseller, No. 21, High Street, Bloomsbury, 1804., 1804), by William Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of support and comfort for the aged. (Harper & Brothers, 1871), by John Stanford Holme (page images at HathiTrust)
• If I die tonight (J.A. Whipple, in the 19th century), by J. C. R. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burying ground. (Printed by John Porteous, Moore-Street, 1831), by Charlotte Elizabeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varii, e veri ritratti della morte : disegnati in immagini, ed espressi in essempij al peccatore duro di cuore (Presso Gio:Giacomo Hertz, 1675), by Giovanni Battista Manni and Giovanni Giacomo Hertz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mysteries revealed a brief, comprehensive treatise on death, intermediate state (including Paradise and Hades), judgment, Hell and Heaven, also a refutation of soul-sleeping, Purgatory and the annihilation of the wicked (Cruse of Oil Pub. House, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The first five minutes after death (Central Congregational Church?, 1914), by James L. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In dulcet minors (s.n., 1899), by John MacLean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice for the new year, or, A pastor's offering to his flock being a sermon, preached in St. Thomas' Church, Montreal, on Sunday, the 4th January, 1846 (s.n.], 1846), by Charles Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troisième conférence du Carême de 1917, Notre-Dame de Montréal (Librairie Beauchemin, 1917), by Charles Thellier de Poncheville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The peak in Darien : with some other inquiries touching concerns of the soul and the body, an octave of essays (G.H. Ellis, 1886), by Frances Power Cobbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disce mori learn to die (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1840), by Christopher Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on the second death. : [Three lines from Revelation] (Printed at the Banner Office., 1838), by Edmund Pray and Me.) Banner Office (Augusta (page images at HathiTrust)
• A funeral sermon for the late Reverend Mr. John Mottershed, minister of the Gospel, in Ratcliffe : who departed this life October 13, 1728, An Aetat. LXIII (Printed for S. Billingsley ..., 1729), by Edmund Calamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stones of stumbling. (C.F. Hodgson, 1884), by Lionel A. Tollemache (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermons on the occasion of the death of Norman Macleod, D.D., Minister of the Barony Parish, Glasgow, Dean of the Order of the Thistle, and one of Her Majesty's Chaplains for Scotland : preached on the 23rd June, 1872, in the Barony Parish Church, and in Barony Chapel, Parliamentary Road. (James Maclehose, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tribunal Christi (Sumptibus Constantin Munch et sociorum, 1635), by Jeremias Drexel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflected light : illustrations of the Redeemer's faithfulness in the happy death-bed experience of Christians. (W.S. and A. Martien, 1865), by James W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• In de schaduwe des doods : meditatien voor de krankenkamer en bij het sterfbed (Amsterdam : Höveker & Wormser, 1893., 1893), by Abraham Kuyper and Abraham Kuyper Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body: An Octave of Essays, by Frances Power Cobbe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christians and Infidels (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ars moriendi. English. (Enprynted at Westmynstre : By Wynken de Worde, [1497]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dialogue between a blind-man and death (London : Printed by George Larkin ..., 1686), by Richard Standfast (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Christian observations and resolutions, or, The daylie practise of the renewed man, turning all occurrents to spirituall uses, and these uses to his vnion with God I. centurie : vvith a resolution for death, &c. / newlie published by Mr William Struther ... (Edinburgh : Printed by the heires of Andro Hart, 1628), by William Struther (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ars moriendi. Here begynneth a lytell treatyse shortlye compyled, and called Ars moriendi/that is to saye the crafte to dye, for the helth of manes soule. ([S.l. : R. Wyer, 1532?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An elegy upon death. (London : Printed by Thomas Showden for the author ..., 1679), by R. Mayhew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sick-bed thoughts, upon those words of the apostle in Phil. 1, 23 ... Part. I containing an answer to that great and solemn question, what that state and condition is, which a person must be found in, before he can have good and sufficient ground, not to be affraid, or unwilling to dye? / by J.B. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1667), by John Batchiler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Death compared to sleep in a sermon preacht upon the occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Mary Allen, who died Feb. 18, anno Dom. 1695 / by Thomas Cheesman ... (London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst ..., 1695), by Thomas Cheesman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (with updated text; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1876), by Jeremy Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les consolations de l'ame fidele, contre les frayeurs de la mort : avec les dispositions & les preparations necessaires pour bien mourir (Pour I. Ant. & Samuel de Tournes, 1660), by Charles Drelincourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les consolations de l'ame fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort : avec les dispositions & les preparations necessaires pour bien mourir ... (Chez Jean de Ravestein ..., 1660), by Charles Drelincourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duel de l'homme et de la mort. English (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1621), by Jean Guillemard and Edward Grimeston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford. ([London] : Perused corrected & augmented according to the originall, & imprinted in Fletestrete neere to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, [ca. 1564]), by John Bradford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel. (London : Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1650), by John Owen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A salve for a sicke man. or, A treatise containing the nature, differences, and kindes of death as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serue for spirituall instruction to 1. Mariners when they goe to sea. 2. Souldiers when they goe to battell. 3. Women when they trauell of child. (Printed at London : By Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1611. And are to be sold in Pauls church-yard at the signe of the Crovvne by Simon Waterson, [1611]), by William Perkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A seasonable preparation for death and eternity, or, Funeral considerations, &c. Being the substance of a discourse occasionally on the D. of G------, a noble peer, who received his mortal wound at the siege of Cork in Ireland. With a prayer suitable to the occasion. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back, [1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A golden chain of four links to draw poor souls to their desired habitation or, The four last things briefly discoursed of, viz. Death, which is most certain, judgment, which is most strict, hell, which is most dismal; heaven, which is most delightfull. To which is added wholsome instructions both to young and old, in order to prepare themselves for their latter end, and avoid all sinful allurements, which usually obstructs that great and necessary work of salvation. With some necessary directions to die well, in order to avoid hell, and obtain heaven. / By Mr. J. Stevens. (Edinburgh, : Pritned and sold by James Watson ..., 1700), by Joseph Stevens (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A direction to death: teaching man the way to die well, that being dead, he may liue euer. Made in the forme of a dialogue, for the ease and benefite of him that shall reade it. The speakers therein are Quirinus and Regulus. (London. : Imprinted for Thomas Man, 1599.), by William Perneby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dottrina del ben morire. (Imprinted at Antwerp : By A. C[onincx], 1603), by Pietro da Lucca, and Richard Verstegan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Resolved Christian, exhorting to resolution. (London : Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushel, and are to be sold at the great north doore of Paules, 1600), by Gabriel Powel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Here begynneth a lytyll treatyse schortely compyled and called ars moriendi that is to saye the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannes sowle. ([Westminster : W. Caxton, 1491]), by William Caxton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Epitaph upon his deceased friend Mrs. R. J. (London : printed by Tho. Radcliffe, and N. Thompson, for B. Southwood at the Star next to Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane, 1672), by John Horn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A looking glasse of mortalitie. Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men, but yet most necessarie, profitable and commodious for all sorts of people, of what estate dignity, or calling soeuer they be. : With an Exhortation to good life annexed: wherein are treated all such things as appertaine vnto a Christian to do, from the beginning of his conuersion, vntill the end of his perfection. / Made by I.B.. (Printed at London : by R. F. for Iohn Oxenbridge, dwelling at the signe of the Parrat in Paules churchyard., 1599.), by I. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A divine discoverie of death directing all people to a triumphant resurrection, and euer-lasting saluation. (London : Imprinted [by R. Field] for William Iones [3] and Richard Boyle, dwelling in the Blackfriers, 1612), by Edward Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The glory and happiness of the saints in heaven:, or, A discourse concerning the blessed state of the righteous after death by Nathanael Ranew. (London : Printed for N. R. and sold by J. Robinson, A. and J. Chruchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694), by Nathanael Ranew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir. English. ([Imprentyt in parys the. xx. day of the mowneth of May : [For A. Verard, 1503]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An edifieing wonder, of two children dyeing 100 yeares old or A short account of the last houres of Susanna Bickes (in the 14 yeare of her age) before her death. Septemb. 1. 1664. Also of Jacob Bickes her brother of 7. yeares old. Aug. 6. 1664. ([S.l. : s.n.], Printed in the year 1666) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared The first teaching to pray, the second to liue, the third to receiue the sacrament of Christs body. To which is added, a preface of prayer, a pithie prayer for Christian families. A thankes giuing for our deliuerance from treason by gunpowder, and learned Latin verses of that argument. By Robert Hill, preacher at Saint Martins in the fields. (At London : Printed [by G. Eld] for William Cotton, and are to be sold at his shop neere Ludgate, 1606), by Robert Hill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared (London : Printed by W. S[tansby] for Edward Blount, and William Barret, 1613), by Robert Hill and Girolamo Zanchi (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A winding sheet. Wrapped vp in a letter from an onely liuing brother, sent to his few suruiuing sisters. Denouncing vnto them the sad sentence of death and directing them how to bee prepard for the happie entertainment of it.. (London. : Printed by B.A[lsop]. and T.F[awcet]. for F.C[lifton]. and are to bee sold at his shop on new Fishstreet-Hill., 1626.), by I. E. and D. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The vnbeliefe of St. Thomas the Apostle laid open for the comfort of all that desire to belieue. Whereunto is added a comfortable treatise for all that are afflicted in soule or body. The first armeth vs against despaire in the houre of death; the second against impatience vnder the crosse. By Nicholas Bound, Doctor in Diuinitie. (London : Printed [by J. Legat] for Robert Allot at the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1628), by Nicholas Bownd (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A soveraign antidote against the fear of death: or, A cordial for a dying Christian Being ten select meditations, wherein a Christians objections are answered, and his doubts and fears removed, and many convincing motives and arguments are laid down to perswade him to a willing submission to Gods will, whether he be sent for by a natural or a violent death. By Edward Bury formerly minister of Great Bolas in Shropshire. (London : printed by J. A. for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and three crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers-Chappel, 1681), by Edward Bury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A glimpse of eternity Very useful to awaken sinners, and to comfort saints. Profitable to be read in families, and given at funerals. By Abr. Caley. (London : printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, and G.B. at the Bible under the gate on London-Bridge, 1683), by Abraham Caley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contentes of thys boke. ([London? : Thomas East?, ca. 1575?]), by John Frith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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