There are some persons who have been noted for excellent in their lives and passions, rarely innocent, and yet hugely penitent for indiscre∣tions and harmlesse infirmities, such as was Paulina one of the ghostly children of S. Hie∣rom, and yet when any of her children dyed she was arrested with a sorrow so great as brought her to the margent of her grave. And the more tender our spirits are made by Religion, the more easy we are to let in grief, if the cause be innocent, and be but in any sence twisted with piety and due affections. * To cure which we may consider that al the world must die, & ther∣fore to be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain and known that he must die, is to mourn because thy friend or childe was not born an Angel, and when thou hast a while made thy self miserable by an importunate and uselesse grief, it may be thou shalt die thy self, and leave others to their choice whether they will mourn for thee or no: but by that time it will appear how imperti∣nent
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.
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- Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
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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 4, 2024.
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that grief was which served no end of life, and ended in thy own funeral. But what great matter is it, if sparks fly upward, or a stone falls into a pit, if that which was combustible be burned, or that which was liquid be melted, or that which is mortal do die? It is no more then a man does every day; for every night death hath gotten possession of that day, and we shall never live that day over again; and when the last day is come there are no more dayes left for us to die. And what is sleeping and waking, but living and dying? what is Sping and Autumne, youth and old age, morn∣ing and evening, but real images of life and death, and really the same to many considerable effects and changes?