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.

Short Prayers to be said by sick persons.

O Holy Jesus, thou art a mercifull High-Priest and touched with the sense of our infirmities; thou knowest the sharpness of my sickness, and the weakness of my person. The clouds are gathered about me, and thou hast covered me with thy storm: My under∣standing hath not such apprehension of things as formerly: Lord let thy mercy support me, thy spirit guide me, and lead me through the valley of this death safely; that I may pass it patiently, holily, with perfect resignation, and

let me rejoyce in the Lord, in the hopes of pardon, in the expectation of glory, in the sense of thy mercies, in the refreshments of thy spirit, in a victory over all temptations.

Thou hast promised to be with us in tribu∣lation. Lord, my soul is troubled, and my bo∣dy is weak, and my hope is in thee, and my enemies are busie and mighty, now make good thy holy promise. Now O holy Jesus, now let thy hand of grace be upon me: re∣strain my ghostly enemies, and give me all sorts of spirituall assistances: Lord remem∣ber thy servant in the day when thou bindest up thy Jewels.

O take from me all tediousness of Spirit, all impatience and unquietness: let me possesse my soul in patience, and resign my soul and body into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithfull Creator, and a blessed Redeemer.

O holy Jesu••, thou didst dye for us; by thy sad, pungent and intollerable pains which thou enduredst for me, have pity on me, and ease my pain, or increase my patience. Lay on me no more then thou shalt enable me to bear. I have deserv'd it all and more, and in∣finitely more. Lord I am weak and ignorant, timerous and inconstant, and I fear lest some∣thing should happen that may discompose the state of my soul, that may displease thee: Do what thou wilt with me, so thou doest but preserve me in thy fear and favour. Thou knowest that it is my great fear, but let thy spirit secure, that nothing may be able to sepa∣rate me from the love of God in Jesus Christ; ••hen smite me here, that thou mayest spare

me for ever: and yet O Lord smite me friendly: for thou knowest my infirmi∣ties. Into thy hands I commend my spi∣rit, for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth. * Come holy Spirit, help me in this conflict. Come Lord Jesus, come quickly.