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 5, 2024.
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I,
O Most glorious God, and my most
indulgent Lord and gracious Father,
who dost bless us by thy bounty, pardon
us by thy mercy, support and guide us
by thy grace, and govern us sweetly by
thy providence; I give thee most hum∣ble
and hearty thanks, that thou hast hi∣therto
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preserved me in my Virgin-state
with innocence and chastity in a good
name and a modest report. It is thy
goodness alone, and the blessed emana∣tion
of thy holy Spirit, by which I have
been preserved; and to thee I return all
praise and thanks, and adore and love
thy goodness infinite.
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