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.
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London :: printed by J. Grover, for R. Royston, bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty,
1677.
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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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Penitential Hymns.

I.
LOrd, I have sinn'd, and the black number swells To such a dismal sum, That should my stony heart and eyes, And this whole sinful trunk, a flood become, And run to tears, their drops could not suffice To count my score, Much less to pay: But thou, my God, hast blood in store, And art the Patron of the poor.

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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.
II.
GReat God, and just! how canst thou see, Dear God, our misery, And not in mercy set us free? Poor miserable man ! how wert thou born, Weak as the dewy jewels of the Morn, Wrapt up in tender dust, Guarded with sins and lust, Who like Court-flatterers wait To serve themselves in thy unhappy fate? Wealth is a snare, and poverty brings in Inlets for theft, paving the way for sin: Each perfum'd vanity doth gently breath Sin in thy Soul, and whispers it to death. Our faults like ulcerated sores do go O're the sound flesh, and do corrupt that too. Lord, we are sick, spotted with sin, Thick as a crusty Leper's skin.

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Like Naaman, bid us wash, yet let it be In streams of blood that flow from thee. Then will we sing, Touch'd by the heavenly Dove's bright wing, Hallelujabs, Psalms and Praise To God the Lord of night and days; Ever good and ever just, Ever high, who ever must Thus be sung, is still the same: Eternal praises crown his Name.
Amen.
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