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 May 12, 2024.
Contents
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TO THE Pious and Devout. READER - CREDENDA, OR, What is to be Believed.
- AGENDA: OR, Things to be done.
- VIA PACIS.
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POSTULANDA.
OR,
Things to be prayed for.
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A
FORM of PRAYER,
By way of Paraphrase expounding
The Lord's Prayer.
- Our Father.
- Which art in Heaven.
- Hallowed be thy Name.
- Thy Kingdom come.
- Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven.
- Give us this day our daily Bread.
- Forgive us our Trespasses, as we forgive them that tres∣pass against us
- Lead us not into Temptation;
- But deliver us from evil.
- For thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
- LITANIES FOR All Things and Persons.
- A short Prayer to be said every Morning.
- For Sunday. A Prayer against Pride.
- For Monday. A Prayer against Cove∣tousness.
- For Tuesday. A Prayer against Lust.
- For Wednesday. A Prayer against Gluttony and Drunkenness.
- For Thursday. A Prayer against Envy.
- For Friday. A Prayer against Wrath and inordinate Anger.
- For Saturday. A Prayer against weariness in well-doing.
- A Prayer to be said by a Mai∣den, before she enters into the state of Marriage.
- A Prayer for a holy and a happy Death.
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A
FORM of PRAYER,
By way of Paraphrase expounding
The Lord's Prayer.
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TO THE Christian Reader. -
A GUIDE FOR THE PENITENT. - Remembrances concerning the Examination of your Conscience.
- Advice Concerning Confession.
- Advice concerning Devout Receiving the Holy and Blessed Sacrament.
- Advice concerning Fasting.
- Expressions of Humiliation pre∣paratory to the following Devotions.
- Acts of Resolution to second this Humiliation.
- A Litany of Confession to be made use of by the Penitent Soul that finds it self bur∣thened with a true sense of Sin.
- The Penitent Soul having made this or the like Confes∣sion, prepares and stirs up it self to true Contrition.
- After this Preparation these Express Acts of Contrition may follow.
- 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.
- Having thus far made his Re∣solution, the Penitent be∣takes himself to Prayer.
- After these Resolutions the Pe∣nitent prepares himself with an humble Soul and bended knees to beg Pardon.
- The Penitent's Prayer.
- The Jubile of the Penitent Soul after the sense of Pardon ob∣tained.
- The Penitent closeth all with this short Prayer.
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FESTIVAL HYMNS.