Paraphrase de la prose Dies irae ou Sentiments d'un pecheur qui desire travailler sincerement a sa conversion.

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8vo, pp. 210, [2] approbation and privileges; title within decorative border; finely bound in contemporary full polished calf, sides with triple gilt rule, and fleurons in corner, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; a very attractive copy. An attractive copy of this devotional treatise about the Dies irae, by the French priest and philanthropist Jean-Denis Cochin (1726-1783). As Cochin attests, there are few prayers of which the Church has more frequent use than Dies irae. Day of Wrath in Ecclesiastical Latin, the verse is a Medieval Latin poem, best known from its use in the Requiem (Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass), and in Anglican Communion service books. It describes the Last Judgment, with trumpets summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames. It dates from at least the thirteenth century, though it is possible that it is much older. Cochin considers its importance to the recently bereaved, as a meditation on the passage of the soul to the afterlife. Cochin advocated an active ministry, and here he uses the extended Christian metaphor of fishing as a guide to his work. He is best known for his philanthropic acts; he founded in 1780 the hospice of Saint-Jacques du Haut Pas, in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques. In 1801 the General Council of the Paris hospitals renamed it Hôpital Cochin, after its founder, and it remains a large institution today. A second edition was published the same year. OCLC: Bibliotheque Nationale, second edition at Bowdoin College, Lyon and Birmingham. N° de ref. del artículo 4943

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