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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Title: 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.
Publication: London :: Printed [by R. Norton] for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane,; MDCL. [1650]
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Subject terms: Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.; Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "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 May 29, 2024.

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Lord I know that my spirit is light and thorny, my body is bruitish and expos'd to sicknesse; I am constant to folly, and incon∣stant in holy purposes: My labours are vain and fruitlesse; my fortune full of change and trouble, seldome pleasing, never perfect: My wisdom is folly; being ignorant even of the parts and passions of my own body: and what am I, O Lord, before thee, but a miserable person, hugely in debt, not able to pay?