Holy living in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every virute, 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 occasians [sic], and furnished for all necessities / by Jer. Taylor.
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Holy living in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every virute, 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 occasians [sic], and furnished for all necessities / by Jer. Taylor.
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Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
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London :: Printed for Richard Royston,
1656.
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Christian life.
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"Holy living in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every virute, 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 occasians [sic], and furnished for all necessities / by Jer. Taylor." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64114.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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Acts of Humility and Modesty by way of prayer and meditation.
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Lord I know that my spirit is light and thorny, my body is brutish and exposed to sickness; I am constant to folly, and in∣constant in holy purposes: My labours are vain and fruitless; my fortune full of change and trouble, seldom pleasing, never perfect: My wisdom is holly; 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?
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