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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O My God, merciful and gracious, my Soul groans under the loads of its own infirmity, when my spirit is wil∣ling, my flesh is weak, my understanding foolish and imperfect, my will peevish & listless, my affections wandering after strange objects, my fancy wild and un∣fixed, all my senses minister to folly and vanity; and though they were all made for Religion, yet they least of all delight in that. O my God, pity me, and hear me when I pray, and make that I may pray acceptably. Give me a love to Re∣ligion, an unwearied spirit in the things of God. Let me not relish or delight in the things of the world, in sensual ob∣jects and transitory possessions; but make my eyes look up to thee, my Soul be filled with thee, my spirit ravished with thy love, my understanding imployed in the meditation of thy Law, all my

powers and faculties of Soul and Body wholly serving thee, and delighting in such holy ministeries.