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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64114	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.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1656 (1656)	Wing T374; ESTC R232803	258,819	464

no impure thoughts pollute that soul which God hath sanctified no unclean words pollute that tongue which God hath commanded to be an Organ of his praises no unholy and unchaste action rend the vail of that Temple where the holy JESUS hath been pleased to enter and hath chosen for his habitation but seal up all my senses from all vain objects and let them be intirely possessed with Religion and fortified with prudence watchfulness and mortification that I possessing my vessel in holiness may lay it down with a holy hope and receive it again in a joyful resurrection through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for the love of God to be said by Virgins and Widows professed or resolved so to live and may be used by any one O Holy and purest Jesus who wert pleased to espouse every holy soul and joyn it to thee with a holy union and mysterious instruments of religious society and communications O fill my soul with Religion and desires holy as the thoughts of Cherubim passionate beyond the love of women that I may love thee as much as ever any creature loved thee even with all my soul and all my faculties and all the degrees of every faculty let me know no loves but those of duty and charity obedience and devotion that I may for ever run after thee who art the King of Virgins and with whom whole kingdoms are in love and for whose sake Queens have died and at whose feet Kings with joy have laid their Crowns and Scepters My soul is thine O dearest Jesu thou art my Lord and hast bound up my eyes and heart from all strange affections give me for my dowry purity and humility modesty and devotion charity and patience and at last bring me into the Bride-chamber to partake of the felicities and to lie in the bosome of the Bride-groom to eternal ages O holy and sweetest Saviour Jesus Amen A Prayer to be said by married persons in behalf of themselves and each other O Eternal and gracious Father who hast consecrated the holy estate of marriage to become mysterious and to represent the union of Christ and his church let thy holy Spirit so guide me in the doing the duties of this state that it may not became a sin unto me nor that liberty which thou hast hallowed by the holy Jesus become an occasion of licentiousness by my own weakness and sensuality and doe thou forgive all those irregularities and too sensual applications which may have in any degree discomposed my spirit and the severity of a Christian. Let me in all accidents and circumstances be severe in my duty towards thee affectionate and dear to my Wife or Husband a guide and good example to my family and in all quietness sobriety prudence and peace a follower of those holy pairs who have served thee with godliness and a good testimony and the blessings of the eternal God blessings of the right hand and of the left be upon the body and soul of thy servant my Wife or Husband and abide upon her or him till the end of a holy and happy life and grant that both of us may live together for ever in the embraces of the holy and eternal Jesus our Lord and saviour Amen A prayer for the grace of Humility O Holy and most gracious Master and Saviour Jesus who by thy example and by thy precept by the practise of a whole life and frequent discourses didst command us to be meek and humble in imitation of thy incomparable sweetness and great humility be pleased to give me the grace as thou hast given me the commandment enable me to doe whatsoever thou commandest and command whatsoever thou pleasest O mortifie in me all proud thoughts and vain opinions of my self let me return to thee acknowledgment and the fruits of all those good things thou hast given me that by confessing I am wholly in debt to thee for them I may not boast my self for what I have received and for what I am highly accountable and for what is my own teach me to be ashamed and humbled it being nothing but sin and misery weakness and uncleanness Let me go before my brethren in nothing but in striving to doe them honour and thee glory never to seek my own praise never to delight in it when it is offered that despising my self I may be accepted by thee in the honours with which thou shalt crown thy humble and despised servants for Jesus his sake in the kingdome of eternal glory Amen Acts of Humility and Modesty by way of prayer and meditation I. Lord I know that my spirit is light and thorny my body is brutish and exposed to sickness I am constant to folly and inconstant 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 II. Lord I am nothing and I have nothing of my self I am lesse then the least of all thy mercies III. What was I before my birth First nothing and then uncleanness What during my childehood weakness and folly What in my youth folly still and passion lust and wildness What in my whole life a great sinner a deceived and an abused person Lord pity me for it is thy goodness that I am kept from confusion and amazement when I consider the misery and shame of my person and the defilements of my nature IV. Lord what am I and Lord what art thou What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou so regardest him V. How can Man be justified with God or how can he be clean that is born of a Woman Behold even to the Moon and it shineth not yea the Starres are not pure in his sight How much lesse Man that is a Worm and the son of Man which is a Worm Job 25. A Prayer for a contented spirit and the grace of moderation and patience O Almighty God Father and Lord of all the creatures who hast disposed al things and all chances so as may best glorifie thy wisdom and serve the ends of thy justice and magnifie thy mercy by secret and undiscernible waies bringing good out of evil I most humbly beseech thee to give me wisdome from above that I may adore thee and admire thy waies and footsteps which are in the great Deep and not to be searched out teach me to submit to thy providence in all things to be content in all changes of person and condition to be temperate in prosperity and to read my duty in the lines of thy mercy and in adversity to be meek patient and resigned and to look through the cloud that I may wait for the consolation of the Lord and the day of redemption in the mean time doing my duty with an

that I also may dwell in the heart of my dearest Lord which was opened for me with a spear and love An act of contrition Lord thou shalt finde my heartfull of cares and worldly desires cheated with love of riches and neglect of holy things proud and unmortified false and crafty to deceive it self intricated and intāgled with difficult cases of conscience with knots which my own wildness and inconsideration and impatience have tied and shuffled together O my dearest Lord if thou canst behold such an impure seat behold the place to which thou art invited is full of passion and prejudice evill principles and evill habits peevish and disobedient lustfull and intemperate and full of sad remembrances that I have often provoked to jealousie and to anger thee my God my dearest Saviour him that dyed for me him that suffered torments for me that is infinitely good to me and infinitely good and perfect in himself This O dearest Saviour is a sad truth and I am heartily ashamed and truly sorrowfull for it and do deeply hate all my sins and am full of indignation against my self for so unworthy so careless so continued so great a folly and humbly beg of thee to increase my sorrow and my care and my hatred against sin and make my love to thee swell up to a great grace and then to glory and immensity An act of Faith This indeed is my condition But I know O blessed Jesus that thou didst take upon thee my nature that thou mightest suffer for my sins and thou didst suffer to deliver me from them and from thy Fathers wrath and I was delivered from this wrath that I might serve thee in holiness righteousness all my daies Lord I am sure thou didst the great work of Redemption for me and all mankinde as that I am alive This is my hope the strength of my spirit my joy and my confidence and do thou never let the spirit of unbelief enter into me and take me from this Rock Here I will dwell for I have a delight therein Here I will live and here I desire to die The Petition Therefore O blessed Jesu who art my Saviour and my God whose body is my food and thy righteousness is my robe thou art the Priest and the Sacrifice the Master of the feast and the feast it self the Physician of my soul the light of my eyes the purifier of my stains enter into my heart and cast out from thence all impurities all the remains of the Old man and grant I may partake of this holy Sacrament with much reverence and holy relish and great effect receiving hence the communication of thy holy body and blood for the establishment of an unreproveable faith of an unfained love for the fulness of wisdom for the healing my soul for the blessing and preservation of my body for the taking out the sting of temporall death and for the assurance of a holy resurrection for the ejection of all evill from within me and the fulfilling all thy righteous Commandements and to procure for me a mercy and a fair reception at the day of judgement through thy mercies O holy and ever blessed Saviour Jesus Amen Here also may be added the prayer after receiving the cup. * Ejaculations to be said before or at the receiving the holy Sacrament Like as the Hart desireth the water brooks so longeth my soul after thee O God My soul is a thirst for God yea even for the living God when shall I come before the presence of God O Lord my God great are thy wonderous works which thou hast done like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee O send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy dwelling And that I may go unto the Altar of God even unto the God of my joy and gladness and with my heart will I give thanks to thee O God my God I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I go to thine altar that I may shew the voice of thanks-giving and tell of all thy wonderous works Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart For thy loving kindness is now and ever before my eyes and I will walk in thy truth Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oil and my cup shall be full But thy loving loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever This is the bread that cometh down from Heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him and hath eternall life abiding in him and I will raise him up at the last day Lord whether shall we go but to thee thou hast the words of eternall life If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink The bread which we break is it not the communication of the body of Christ and the cup which we drink is it not the communication of the blood of Christ What are those wounds in thy hands They are those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends Zech 13.6 Immediately before the receiving say Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof But do thou speak the word onely and thy servant shall be he led Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew thy praise O God make speed to save me O Lord make hast to help me Come Lord Jesus come quickly After receiving the consecrated and blessed bread say O tast and see how gracious the Lord is blessed is the man that trusteth in him * The beasts do lack and suffer hunger but they which seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good Lord what am I that my Saviour should become my food that the Son of God should be the meat of Worms of dust and ashes of a sinner of him that was his enemy But this thou hast done to me because thou art infinitely good wonderfully gracious and lovest to bless every one of us in turning us from the evill of our wayes Enter into me blessed Jesus let no root of bitterness spring up in my heart but be thou Lord of all my faculties O let me feed on thee by faith and grow up by the increase of God to a perfect man in Christ Jesus Amen Lord I believe help mine unbelief Glory be to God the Father Son c. After the receiving the cup of blessing It is finished Blessed be the mercies of God revealed to us in Jesus Christ. O blessed and eternall high Priest let the sacrifice of the Cross which thou didst once offer for the sins of the whole World and which thou doest now and always represent in

to express our apprehensions of his greatness in all great accidents in popular judgments loud thunders tempests earthquakes not only for fear of being smitten our selves or that we are concerned in the accident but also that we may humble our selves before his Almightiness and express that infinite distance between his infiniteness and our weaknesses at such times especially when he gives such visible arguments of it He that is merry and airie at shore when he sees a sad and a loud tempest on the sea or dances briskly when God thunders from heaven regards not when God speaks to all the world but is possessed with a firm immodesty 2. Be reverent modest and reserved in the presence of thy betters giving to all according to their quality their titles of honour keeping distance speaking little answering pertinently not interposing without leave or reason not answering to a question propounded to another and ever present to thy superiors the fairest side of thy dicourse of thy temper of thy ceremony as being ashamed to serve excellent persons with unhandsome entercourse 3. Never lie before a King or a great person nor stand in a lie when thou art accused Quem Deus t●git v●●cundia pallio huj●● maculas ho●n●bas non ostend●t Maimon Can Eth. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Melus nor offer to justifie what is indeed a fault but modestly be ashamed of it ask pardon and make amends 4. Never boast of thy sin Obstare primum est velle n●c labi via Pudor est s●cundus nosse peccandi modum Senec. Hip. A Chione altem vel ab Helide dise● pudo●om Abscondunt spurcas haec mo●um●n●a lup●s Matt. l. epist. 35. but at last lay a vail upon thy nakedness shame and put thy hand before theine eyes that thou mayest have this beginning of repentance to believe thy sin to be thy shame For he that blushes not at his crime but adds shamelesness to his shame hath no instrument left to restore him to the hopes of virtue 5. Be not confident and affirmative in an uncertaine matter but report things modestly and temperately according to the degree of that perswasion which is or ought to be begotten in thee by the efficacy of the authority or the reason inducing thee 6. Pretend not to more knowledge then thou hast but be content to seem ignorant where thou art so lest thou beest either brought to shame or retirest into shamelesness Ecclus. 3 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts of Modesty as it is opposed to undecency 1. In your prayers in Churches and places of religion use reverent postures great attention grave ceremony the lowest gestures of humility remembring that we speak to God in our reverence to whom we cannot possibly exceed but that the expression of this reverence be according to law or custome and the example of the most prudent and pious persons that is let it be the best in its kinde to the best of essences 2. In all publick meetings private addresses in discourses in journeys use those forms of salutation reverence and decency which the custome prescribes and is usual amongst the most sober persons giving honour to whom honour belongeth taking place of none of thy betters and in all cases of question concerning civil precedency giving it to any one that will take it if it be only thy own right that is in question 3. Observe the proportion of affections in all meetings and to all persons be not merry at a funeral nor sad upon a festival but rejoice with them that rejoice and weep with them that weep 4. Abstain from wanton dissolute laughter petulant and uncomely jests loud talking jeering and all such actions which in civil account are called undecencies and incivilities 3. Towards your parents use all modesty of duty and humble carriage towards them all your kindred be severe in the modesties of chastly ever fearing lest the freedoms of natural kindness should enlarge into any neighbourhood of unhandsomness For all incestuous mixtures and all circumstances degrees towards it are the highest violations of modesty in the world for therefore incest is grown to be so high a crime especially in the last periods of the world because it breaks that reverence which the consent of all nations and the severity of humane laws hath enjoyned towards our parents and nearest kindred in imitation of that law which God gave to the Jews in prosecution of Modesty in this instance 6. Be a curious observer of all those things which are of good report and are parts of publick honesty For publick fame Philip. 4.1 and the sentence of prudent and publick persons is the measure of good and evil in things indifferent and charity requires us to comply with those fancies and affections which are agreeable to nature or the analogie of virtue or publick laws or old customs It is against Modesty for a woman to marry a second husband as long as shee bears a burden by the first or to admit a second love while her funeral tears are not wiped from her cheeks Et meretri● abigit restem vel●que s●r●● que Raráque si memini fornice rima patet Matt. It is against publick honesty to doe some lawful actions of privacy in publick theatres and therefore in such cases retirement is a duty of modesty 7. Be grave decent modest in thy clothing and ornament never let it be above thy condition not alwaies equal to it never light or amorous never discovering a nakedness through a thin vail which thou pretendest to hide never to lay a snare for a soul but remember what becomes a Christian professing holiness chastity and the discipline of the holy Jesus Tuta sit ornatrix odi quae saueiat ora Vngu●bus rap●â brachia figi● acu dev●●et tangit Dominae caput illa simúlque Plorat ad invis●s sanguin●l●ma c●mas Ovid. and the first effect of this let your servants feel by your gentleness and aptness to be pleased with their usual diligence and ordinary cōduct For the man or woman that is dressed with anger and impatience wears pride under their robes and immodesty above 8. Hither also is to be reduced singular and affected walking proud nice and ridiculous gestures of body painting and lascivious dressings all which together God reproves by the Prophet Naiah 3.15 The Lord saith because the daughters of Sion are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes walking and mineing as they go and make a tinkling with their feet therefore the ●ord will smite her with a scab of the crown of the head and will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments Prov 6.13 And this duty of modesty in this instance is expresly enjoyned to all Christian women by Saint Paul ● Tim. 2 5 That women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefastness and sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearl or costly array but