A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.
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- A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.
- Author
- Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
- Publication
- London :: printed by J. Grover, for R. Royston, bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty,
- 1677.
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- Subject terms
- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Prayer-books -- Early works to 1800.
- Catechisms, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63668.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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Page 214
Yet since the Balsame of thy blood,
Although it can, will do no good,
Unless the wounds be cleans'd with tears before;
Thou in whose sweet, but pensive, face
Laughter could never steal a place,
Teach but my heart and eyes
To melt away.
And then one drop of Balsam will suffice.
Amen.