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.

And the Life everlasting.

I believe that they who have their part in this Resurrection shall meet the Lord in the Air,* 1.1 and when the blessed Sentence is pronounc'd upon them,* 1.2 they shall for ever be with the Lord in joys unspeakable and full of glory, God shall w•…•…pe all tears from their eyes; there shall be no fear or sorrow, no mourning or death;* 1.3 a friend shall never go away from thence, and an enemy shall never enter; there shall be fulness without want, light eternal brighter then the Sun,* 1.4 day and no night, joy and no weeping, difference in degree and yet all full; there is love without dissimu∣lation, excellency without envy, multitudes without confusion, mu∣sick without discord; there the Un∣derstandings are rich, the Will is satisfied, the Affections are all love and all joy, and they shall reign with God and Christ for ever and ever. Amen.

This is the Catholick Faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.

Tertull. de velandis Virgin.

Regula quidem fidei •…•…na omnino est, sola immobilis & irreforma∣bilis, credendi, scilicet, in uni∣cum Deum Omnipotentem, &c. Hac lege fidei manente, caet•…•…ra jam disciplinae & conversati∣onis admittunt novitatem cor∣rectionis, operante, scil. & profi∣ciente usque in finem Gratia Dei.

The Rule of Faith is wholly one, unalterable, never to be mended, never changed; to wit, I believe in God, &c, This Law of Faith re∣maining, in other things you may encrease and grow.

S. Aug. de Fide & Symb.

Haec est Fides, quae paucis verbis tenenda in Symbolo Novellis da∣tur. Quae pauca verba fiedelibus not a sunt: ut credendo subjugentur Deo, subjugati recte vivant, recte vivendo cor mundent, corde mun∣do quod credunt, intelligant.

This is the Faith which in few words is given to Novices. These

few words are known to all the faithful; that by believing they may be subject to God, by this subjection they may live well, by living-well they may purifie their hearts, and with pure hearts they may [relish &] understand what they do believe.

Max. Taurin. de Tradit. Symb.

Symbolum tessera est & signacu∣lum, quo inter fideles Perfidosque secernitur.

This Creed is the Badge or Cog∣nizance by which the Faithful are discerned from Unbelievers.

Hujus Catholici Symboli brevis & perfecta Confessio, quae duodecim Apostolorum totidem est signata sen∣tentiis, tam instructa est in muni∣tione coelesti, ut omnes Haeretico∣rum opiniones solo possint gladio de∣truncari.

Leo M. ad Pulcheriam Aug.

This short and perfect Confession of this Catholick Creed, which was consigned by the Sentences of twelve Apostles, is so perfect a ce∣lestial Armour, that all the Opinions of Hereticks may by this alone, as with a Sword, be cut in pieces.

Notes

• * 1.1

  2 Thes.4.17.
• * 1.2

  Rev.21.4.
• * 1.3

  Rev.22.5.
• * 1.4

  Matth.25.34.