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.
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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 May 27, 2024.
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descriptionPage 178
The Transition which the Pe∣nitent
makes from the Acts
of Contrition to the Acts of
Resolution for amendment
of life, without which all
sorrow for Sin is in vain.
BUT because by thy infinite Mercy,
O my God, thou hast satisfied for me
already, shall I therefore fold my Arms,
and sit down and do nothing towards
it? Or which is worse, shall I go on?
Shall I continue in my Sins that Grace
may abound?
Now God forbid.
No, I here resolve rather to die the
Death, than ever wilfully to sin against
thee more.
I do here resolve utterly to avoid the
temptations and approaches towards
those former sins which have hitherto
so miserably betrayed me.
descriptionPage 179
I do here resolve (thy holy Spirit as∣sisting
me) upon all the duties of a new
life; to be hereafter more wary in my
ways, and more constant to good resolu∣tions,
to love thee above all the plea∣sures
and interests of this life, and sadly
to consider what an infinite loser I
should be, if to gain all that my corrupt
heart desires I should lose thee:
If after all this I should be so miser∣ably
forgetful both of my self and thee,
as shamefully to relapse into any of
those sins which I have now repented of.
I do here once more resolve to abhor
and loath my self for it, and not to let
my Conscience sleep or admit of any
rest, till I have with bitter tears and a
sharp reiterated Repentance obtained my pardon.
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