The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.
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The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.
Author
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
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London :: Printed [by R. Norton] for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane,
MDCL. [1650]
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Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64109.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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The benefits of this Exercise.
This exercise, besides that it hath influence upon our whole lives, it hath a special efficacy [ 1] for the preventing of 1. Beggerly sins, that is, those sins which idlenesse and beggery usually betray men to; such as are lying, flattery, [ 2] stealing, and dissimulation. 2. It is a proper antidote against carnal sins, and such as pro∣ceed from fulnesse of bread and emptinesse of imployment. 3. It is a great instrument of [ 3] preventing the smallest sins and irregularities of our life, which usually creep upon idle, dis∣imployed,
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and incurious persons. 4. I•• not [ 4] onely teaches us to avoid evil, but ingages us upon doing good, as the proper businesse of all our dayes. 5. It prepares us so against sudden changes, that we shall not easily be surprized [ 5] at the sudden coming of the day of the Lord: For he that is curious of his time, will not ea∣sily be unready and unfurnished.
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