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 to be said in behalf of a sick or dying person.

O Lord God, there is no number of thy dayes, nor of thy mercies; and the sins and sorrowes of thy servant also are multiplied. Lord look upon him with much mercy and pity, forgive him all his sinnes, comfort his sorrowes, ease his pain, satisfie his doubts, relieve his feares, instruct his ignorances, strengthen his understanding, take from him all disorders of spirit, weaknesse and abuse of fancy: Restraine the malice and

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power of the spirits of darknesse; and suffer him to be injured neither by his ghostly ene∣mies, nor his own infirmities, and let a holy and a just peace, the peace of God be within his conscience.

Lord preserve his senses till the last of his [ 2] time, strengthen his faith, confirm his hope, and give him a never ceasing charity to thee our God, and to all the world: stir up in him a great and proportionable contrition for all the evils he hath done, and give him a just measure of patience for all he suffers: give him prudence, memory, and consideration, rightly to state the accounts of his soul, and do thou remind him of all his duty, that when it shall please thee that his soul goes out from the pri∣son of his body, it may be receiv'd by Angels, and preserved from the surprize of evil spirits, and from the horrors and amazements of new and stranger Regions; and be laid up in the bosom of our Lord, till at the day of thy second coming it shall be reunited to the body, which is now to be laid down in weaknes and disho∣nour, but we humbly beg, may then be raised up with glory & power for ever to live and to behold the face of God in the glories of the Lord Jesus, who is our hope, our resurrection, and our life, the light of our eyes and the joy of our soules, our blessed and ever glorious Re∣deemer. Amen.

Hither the sick person may draw in, and use the acts of several vertues respersed in the several parts of this book, the several Letanies, viz. of repentance, of the passion, and the single pray∣rs, according to his present needs.
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