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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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 5, 2024.

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A Prayer for Charity.
FUll of Mercy, full of Love, Look upon us from above; Thou who taught'st the blind man's night To entertain a double light, Thine and the day's, (and that thine too:) The Lame away his Crutches threw; The parched crust of Leprosie Return'd unto its infancy; The Dumb amazed was to hear His own unchain'd tongue strike his ear: Thy powerful mercy did even chase The Devil from his usurp'd place,

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Where thou thy self should'st dwell, not he. O let thy love our pattern be: Let thy Mercy teach one Brother To forgive and love another; That copying thy Mercy here, Thy Goodness may hereafter rear Our Souls unto thy glory, when Our Dust shall cease to be with •…•…en.
Amen.
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