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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REprove in me the spirit of Fornica∣tion and Uncleanness, and fill my Soul with holy fires, that no strange fire may come into the Temple of my body, where thou hast chosen to dwell. O cast out all those unclean spirits which have unhallowed the place where thy holy feet have trod; pardon all my hurtful thoughts, all my impurities, that I, who am a member of Christ, may not become the member of an harlot, nor the slave of the Devil, nor a servant of lust and unworthy desires, but do thou purifie my love, and let me seek the things that are above, hating the garments spotted with the flesh, never any more grieving the holy spirit by filthy inclinations, with impure and phantastick thoughts; but let my thoughts be holy, my Soul pure, my body chast and healthful, my spirit severe, devout and religious every day more and more; that at the day of our appearing I may be presented to God washed and cleansed pure and spotless, by the blood of the holy Lamb, through Jesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.