Holy Living and Dying: With Prayers: Containing the Complete Duty of a Christian; to which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author

Jeremy Taylor

Wardle, 1835 - Christian life - 515 pages

Contents

• THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY LIVING: 5
• The benefits of this Exercise: 15
• The third General Instrument of Holy Living or: 23
• The benefits of this Exercise: 29
• For Wife or Husband: 35
• A Form of Prayer for the Evening to be said by such who have: 41
• Of Christian Sobriety: 47
• Signs and Effects of Temperance: 53
• Of Chastity: 59
• Acts of Chastity in general: 65
• Of Humility: 73
• Means and Exercises for obtaining and increasing the Grace: 80
• Of Modesty 8: 86
• Of Contentedness in all Estates and Accidents: 92
• Means to obtain Content by way of Considerations: 106
• The Charge of many Children: 116
• Being Childless: 122
• Of Obedience to our Superiors: 128
• Of Provision or that Part of Justice which is due from: 136
• The Duty of Masters of Families: 142
• Rules of making Restitution: 148
• A Prayer to be said by Subjects when their land is invaded: 154
• Of the Internal Actions of Religion: 159
• Rules to govern our Hope: 166
• Of Charity or the Love of God: 172
• The two States of Love to: 178
• Advice concerning Spiritual Books and Ordinary Sermons: 184
• Motives to Prayer: 190
• Of Alms: 204
• Motives to Charity: 218
• Remedies against Covetousness the third Enemy of Mercy: 226
• Acts and Parts of Repentance: 233
• Motives to Repentance: 239
• The Effects and Benefits of worthy Communicating: 248
• Acts of Love by way of Prayer and Ejaculation to be used: 250
• Acts of Hope to be used by Sick Persons after a Pious Life: 256
• A short Form of Thanksgiving to be said upon any special Deli: 267
• A general Preparation towards a holy and blessed: 13
• The Consideration reduced to Practice: 19
• Rules and Spiritual Arts of lengthening our Days: 25
• Consideration of the Miseries of Mans Life: 34
• A general Preparation towards a holy and blessed: 42
• The Benefits of this Exercise: 49
• General Considerations to enforce the former Practices: 57
• Of the first Temptation proper to the State of Sickness: 64
• Remedies against Impatience by way of Exercise: 74
• The second Temptation proper to the State of Sick: 92
• General Rules and Exercises whereby our Sickness: 103
• Of the Practice of the Graces proper to the State: 111
• Acts of Patience by way of Prayer and Ejaculation 118: 118
• A Prayer for the Grace of Patience: 124
• 128: 128
• The Prayer for the Grace and Strengths of Faith: 131
• 135: 135
• Means of exciting Contrition or Repentance of Sins proceeding: 139
• 141: 141
• A Prayer for the Grace and Perfection of Repentance: 145
• 147: 147
• Comm Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven Image: 151
• A Prayer to be said by Kings or Magistrates for themselves: 154
• Comm Thou shalt not Covet 156: 156
• Acts of Charity by way of Prayer and Ejaculation: 163
• Of Ministering in the Sick Mans Confession of Sins: 171
• Of the ministering to the Restitution and Pardon: 183
• Of ministering to the Sick Person by the Spiritual Man: 193
• An Exercise against Despair in the Day of our Death 200: 200
• Offices to be said by the Minister in his Visitation: 208
• Another Prayer 214: 214

Popular passages

Page 240 - And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!

Page 44 - I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Page 144 - O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Page 128 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth, Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Page 283 - And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands ? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Page 55 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Page 163 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

Page 163 - LORD, truly I am thy servant ; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid : thou hast loosed my bonds.

Page 58 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Page 128 - Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Holy Living and Dying: With Prayers: Containing the Complete Duty of a Christian; to which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author
• Author: Jeremy Taylor
• Publisher: Wardle, 1835
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 16, 2008
• Length: 515 pages