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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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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A Prayer against Sen∣suality.

O Eternal Father, thou that sittest in Hea∣ven invested with essential Glories and Divine perfections, fill my soul with so deep a sence of the excellencies of spiritual and heavenly things, that my affections being wean∣ed from the pleasures of the world, and the false

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allurements of sin, I may with great severity and the prudence of a holy discipline and strict desires, with clear resolutions and a free spi∣rit have my conversation in Heaven and hea∣venly imployments; that being in affections as in my condition a Pilgrim and a stranger here, I may covet after and labour for an a∣biding city, and at last may enter into and for ever dwell in the Coelestial Jerusalem which is the mother of us all, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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