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Paperback / 240 pages

Edward A. Hartman (B.S, Columbia Bible College; M.Div., Reformed Theological Seminary; D.Min., Westminster Theological Seminary/California) has been the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Kosciusko, Mississippi for the past seven years.

"Never do anything which you would be afraid to do were it the last hour of your life" Jonathan Edwards (aged 19)

While studying at Westminster Theological Seminary, California, Edward Hartman discovered a treatise by the Puritan William Perkins on the 'Right Manner Of Dying Well'. This discovery was no accident, as soon after that Ed discovered that his wife, the mother of their 4 children, had a Brain Tumour, which after 6 months of much prayer and great heartache, proved to be terminal.

With this traumatic experience behind him, Hartman deals with the topic of preparing your life, and the life of those you love, for death in a practical and thoroughly Christ-centred manner. Hartman looks at our most important relationships, with God, with our spouses, with our family and with those around us. He shares with us the advice of Perkins and other Puritans, who lived in a time that had a much healthier attitude, and much closer relationship, with death.

He concludes that the primary aim, of those sincerely desiring to die well, must be to have Christ at the centre of everything - and that true devotion to Christ comes only through our relationship with him.

Included in the book is the full Perkins Treatise "Right Manner of Dying Well" which became such a comfort to Edward in a time of great trial.

"If your heart thirsts not for pious platitudes from the complacent but for real comfort from a brother who has found God faithful in the valley of death's shadow, read this book."
Dennis E. Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary of California