WE confesse dear God, that we have de∣served to be totally extinct and sepa∣rate from the Communion of Saints, and the comforts of Religion, to be made servants to ignorant, unjust and inferiour persons, or to suffer any other calamitie which thou shalt allot us as the instrument of thy anger, whom we have so often provoked to wrath and jealousie. Lord we humbly lye down under the burden of thy rod, begging of thee to remember our infirmities, and no more to remember our sins, to support us with thy staff, to lift us up with thy hand, to refresh us with thy gracious eye▪ and if a sad cloud of temporal infelicities must still encircle us, open unto us the window of Heaven, that with an eye of faith and hope we may see beyond the cloud, looking upon those mercies which in thy secret providence and
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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admirable wisdom thou designest to all thy servants, from such unlikely and sad begin∣nings. Teach us diligently to do all our duty, and cheerfully to submit to all thy will; and at last be gracious to thy people that call upon thee, that put their trust in thee, that have laid up all their hopes in the bosome of God, that besides thee have no helper. Amen.