Treatise on Death

This little book was written by one of the most important but least-acknowledged English Reformers, Myles Coverdale. It deals with a topic of daily significance and eternal importance: what death is, and how a Christian ought to prepare for death, conduct himself in the face of death, speak to the sick and dying, and relieve and comfort people whose loved ones are departed out of this world.

Coverdale translated the Treatise on Death from the German work of Otho Wermullerus, a scholar of Zur...