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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63668	A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. Guide for the penitent: or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin.	1677 (1677)	Wing T292; ESTC R219156	74,175	230

A CHOICE MANUAL Containing What is to be Believed Practised and Desired or Prayed for the Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week ALSO FESTIVAL HYMNS According to the Manner of the ANCIENT CHURCH Composed for the use of the Devout especially of younger Persons By Jeremy Taylor D. D. LONDON Printed by J. Grover for R. Royston Bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty 1677. THE Golden Grove The Eleventh Edition THE GUIDE of Infant-Devotion together with a Guide for the PENITENT A CHOICE MANUAL Containing What is to be Believed Practised and Desired or Prayed for the Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week ALSO FESTIVAL HYMNS According to the Manner of the ANCIENT CHURCH Composed for the use of the Devout especially of younger Persons By Jeremy Taylor D. D. LONDON Printed by J. Grover for R. Royston Bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty 1677. TO THE Pious and Devout READER IN this sad declension of Religion the Seers who are appointed to be the Watchmen of the Church cannot but observe that the Supplanters and Underminers are gone out and are digging down the foundations and having destroy'd all publick forms of Ecclesiastical Government discou●…tenanc'd an excellent Liturgie taken off the hinges of Unity disgrac'd the Articles of Religion polluted publick Assemblies taken away all cognizance of Schism by mingling all Sects and giving Countenance to that against which all Power ought to stand upon their guard There is now nothing left but that we take care that men be Christians For concerning the Ornament and advantages of Religion we cannot make that provision we desire Incertis de salute de gloria minime certandum For since they who have seen Jerusalem in prosperity and have forgotten the order of the Morning and Evening Sacrifice and the beauty of the Temple will be tempted to neglect so excellent a ministration and their assembling themselves together for peace and holy Offices and be content with any thing that is brought to them though it be but the husks and acorns of Prodigals and Swine so they may enjoy their Lands and their Money with it we must now take care that the young men who were born in the Captivity may be taught how to Worship the God of Israel after the manner of their fore-fathers till it shall please God that Religion shall return into the Land and dwell safely and grow prosperously But never did the excellency of Episcopal Government apppear so demonstratively and conspicuously as now Under their conduct and order we had a Church so united so orderly so govern'd a Religion so setled Articles so true sufficient and confess'd Canons so prudent and so obey'd Devotions so regular and constant Sacraments so adorn'd and ministred Churches so beauteous and religious Circumstances of Religion so grave and prudent so useful and apt for edification that the enemies of our Church who serve the Pope in all things and Jesus Christ in some who dare transgress an Institution and Ordidinance of Christ but dare not break a Canon of the Pope did despair of prevailing against Us and Truth and knew no hopes but by setting their faces against us to destroy this Government and then they knew they should triumph without any enemy so Balaam the Son of Bosor was sent for to curse the People of the Lord in hope that the son of Zippor might prevail against them that had long prospered under the Conduct of Moses and Aaron But now instead of this excellency of Condition and Constitution of Religion the people are fallen under the Harrows and Saws of impertinent and ignorant Preachers who think all Religion is a Sermon and all Sermons ought to be Libels against Truth and old Governours and expound Chapters that the meaning may never be understood and pray that they may be thought able to talk but not to hold their peace they casting not to obtian any thing but Wealth and Victory Power and Plunder and the People have reap'd the fruits apt to grow upon such Crab-stocks they grow idle and false hypocrites and careless they deny themselves nothing that is pleasant they despise Religion forget Government and some never think of Heaven and they that do think to go thither in such paths which all the Ages of the Church did give men warning of lest they shoul that way go to the Devil But when men have try'd all that they can it is to be supposed they will return to the excellency and advantages of the Christian Religion as it is taught by the Church of England for by destroying it no end can be serv'd but of Sin and Folly Faction and Death eternal For besides that no Church that is enemy to this does worship God in that truth of Propositions in that unblameable and pious Liturgie and in preaching the necessities of holy life so much as the Church of England does besides this I say it cannot be persecuted by any Governour that understands his own Interest unless he be first abused by false Preachers and then prefers his secret Opinion before his publick Advantage For no Church in the World is so great a friend to Loyalty and Obedience as she and her Sisters of the same perswasion They that hate Bishops have destroy'd Monarchy and they that would erect an Ecclestical Monarchy must consequently subject the temporal to it and both one and the other would be supream in Consciences and they that govern there with an opinion that in all things they ought to be attended to will let their Prince govern others so long as he will be rul'd by them And certainly for a Prince to persecute the Protestant Religion is as if a Physician should endeavour to destroy all Medicaments and Fathers kill their Sons and the Master of Ceremonies destroy all Formalities and Courtships and as if the Pope should root out all the Ecclesiastick State Nothing so combines with Government if it be of God's appointment as the Religion of the Church of England because nothing does more adhere to the Word of God and disregard the crafty advantages of the World If any man shall not decline to try his Title by the Word of God it is certain there is not in the world a better guard for it than the true Protestant Religion as it is taught in our Church But let things be as it please God it is certain that in that day when Truth gets her Victory in that day we shall prevail against all God's enemies and ours not in the purchaces and perquisites of the world but in the rewards and returns of Holiness and Patience and Faith and Charity for by these we worship God and against this Interest we cannot serve any thing else In the mean time we must by all means secure the founndation and take care that Religion may be conveyed in all its material parts the same as it was but by new and permitted instruments For let us secure that our young men be good Christians it

Religion Lord have mercy c. Remember not O Lord our uncharitable behaviour ●…towards those with whom we have conversed our jealousies and suspitions our evil surmisings and evil reportings the breach of our promises to men and the breach of all our holy vows made to thee our God Lord have mercy c. Remember not O Lord how often we have omitted the several parts and actions of our duty for our sins of Omission are infinite and we have not sought after the Righteousness of God but have rested in carelesness and forgetfulness in a false peace and a silent Conscience Lord have mercy c. O most gracious Lord enter not into judgment with thy servants lest we be consumed in thy wrath and just displeasure from which Good Lord deliver us and preserve thy servants for ever II. For Deliverance from Evils FRom gross ignorance and stupid negligence from a wandring head and a trifling spirit from the violence and rule of passion from a servile will and a commanding lust from all intemperance inordination and irregularity whatsoever Good Lord deliver and preserve thy servants for ever From a covetous mind and greedy desires from lustful thoughts and a wanton eye from rebellious members and the pride and vanity of spirit from false opinions and ignorant confidences Good Lord deliver c. From improvidence and prodigality from envy and the spirit of slander from idleness and sensuality from presumption and despair from sinful actions and all vitious habits Good Lord deliver c. From fierceness of rage and hastiness of spirit from clamorous and reproachful language from peevish anger and inhumane malice from the spirit of contention and hasty and indiscreet zeal Good Lord deliver c. From a schismatical and heretical spirit from tyranny and tumults from sedition and factions from envying the Grace of God in our Brother from impenitence and hardness of heart from obstinacy and apostasie from delighting in sin and hating God and good men Good Lord deliver c. From fornication and adultery from unnatural desires and unnatural hatreds from gluttony and drunkenness from loving and believing lyes and taking pleasure in the remembrances of evil things from delighting in our Neighbour's misery and procuring it from upbraiding others and hating reproof of our selves Good Lord deliver c. From impudence and shame from contempt and scorn from oppression and cruelty from a pitiless and unrelenting spirit from a churlish behaviour and undecent usages of our selves or others Good Lord deliver c. From famine and pestilence from noisome and infectious deseases from sharp and intolerable pains from impatience and tediousness of spirit from a state of temptation and hardened consciences Good Lord deliver c. From banishment and prison from widowhood and want from violence of pains and passions from tempests and earthquakes from the rage of fire and water from Rebellion and Treason from fretfulness and inordinate cares from murmuring against God and disobedience to the Divine Commandment Good Lord deliver c. From delaying our rep●…ntance and persevering in sin from false principles and prejudices from un●…hankfulness and irreligion from seducing others and being abused our selves from the malice and craftiness of the Devil and the deceit and lyings of the World Good Lord deliver c. From wounds and murther from precipices and falls from fracture of bones and dislocation of joynts from dismembring our bodies and all infatuation of our Souls from folly and madness from uncertainty of mind and state and from a certainty of sinning Good Lord deliver c. From Thunder and lightning from phantasms Spectres and illusions of the night from sudden and great Changes from the snares of wealth and the contempt of beggery and extreme poverty from being made an example and a warning to others by suffering sad judgments our selves Good Lord deliver c. From condemning others and justifying our selves from misspending our time and abusing thy Grace from calling good evil and evil good from consenting to folly and tempting others Good Lord deliver c. From excess in speaking and peevish silence from looser laughing and immoderate weeping from giving evil example to others or following any our selves from giving or receiving scandal from the horrible sentence of endless death and damnation Good Lord deliver c. From cursing and swearing from uncharitable chiding and easiness to believe evil from the evil spirit that walketh at noon and the arrow that flieth in darkness from the Angel of wrath and perishing in popular diseases Good Lord deliver c. From the want of a Spiritual Guide from a famine of the Word and Sacramants from hurtful persecution and from taking part with persecutors Good Lord deliver c. From drowning or being burnt alive from sleepless nights and contentious days from a melancholick and a confused spirit from violent fears and the loss of reason from a vitious life and a sudden and unprovided death Good Lord deliver c. From relying upon vain fancies and false foundations from an evil and an amazed Conscience from sinning near the end of our life and from despairing in the day of our death Good Lord deliver c. From hypocrisie and wilfulness from self-love and vain ambition from curiosity and carelesnes from being tempted in the days of our weakness from the prevailing of the flesh and grieving the Spirit from all thy wrath and from all our sins Good Lord deliver c. III. For gifts and graces HEar our Prayer O Lord and consider our desire hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousness sake O hide not thy face from us neither cast away thy servants in displeasure Give unto us the spirit of Prayer frequent and fervent holy and persevering an unreprovable●… Faith a just and an humble Hope and a never-failing Charity Hear our Prayers O Lord and consider our desire Give unto us true humility a meek and a quiet spirit a loving and a friendly a holy and a useful conversation bearing the burthens of our neighbours denying our selves and studying to benefit others and to please thee in all things Hear our Prayers c Give us a prudent and a sober a just and a sincere a temperate and a religious spirit a great contempt of the world a love of holy things and a longing after Heaven and the instruments and paths that lead thither Hear our Prayers c Grant us to be thankful to our Bene factors righteous in performing promises loving to our relatives careful of our charges to be gentle and easie to be intreated slow to anger and fully instructed and readily prepared for every good work Hear our Prayers c. Give us a peaceable spirit and a peaceable life free from debt and deadly sin grace to abstain from appearances of evil and to do nothing but what is of good report to confess Christ and his holy Religion by a holy and obedient life and a mind ready to die for him when he shall

a lie in thy prayers which though not observed is frequently practis'd by careless persons especially in the forms of Confession affirming things which they have not thought professing sorrow which is not making a vow they mean not If thou meanest to be devout and to enlarge thy Religion do it rather by increasing thy ordinary devotions then thy extraordinary For if they be not regular but come by chance they will not last long But if they be added to your ordinary offices or made to be daily thy spirit will by use and custom be made tender and not willing to go less FRIDAY The sixth Decad. HE is a truly charitable and good man who when he receives injuries grieves rather for the malice of him that injures him than for his own suffering who willingly prays for him that wrongs him and from his heart forgives all his fault who stays not but quickly asks pardon of others for his errours or mistakes who sooner shews mercy than anger who thinks better of others than himself who offers violence to his appetite and in all things endeavours to subdue the flesh to the spirit This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. No man can have felicity in two states of things If he takes it in God here in him he shall have it hereafter for God will last for ever But if he takes felicity in things of this world where will his felicity be when this world is done Either here alone or hereafter must be thy portion Avoid those things in thy self which in others do most displease thee And remember that as thine eye observes others so art thou observed by God by Angels and by men He that puts his confidence in God onely is neither over-joyed in any great good things of this life nor sorrowful for a little thing Let God be thy love and thy fear and he also will be thy Salvation and thy refuge Do not omit thy Prayers for want of a good Oratory or place to pray in nor thy duty for want of temporal encouragements For he that does both upon God's account cares not how or what he suffers so he suffer well and be the friend of Christ nor where nor when he prays so he may do it frequently fervently and acceptably Very often remember and meditate upon the wounds and stripes the shame and the pain the death and the burial of our Lord Jesus for nothing will more enable us to bear our Cross patiently injuries charitably the labour of Religion comfortably and censuring words and detractions with meekness and quietness Esteem not thy self to have profited in Religion unless thou thinkest well of others and meanly of thy self Therefore never accuse any but thy self and he that diligently watches himself will be willing enough to be silent concerning others It is no great matter to live lovingly with good-natur'd with humble and meek persons but he that can do so with the froward with the wilful and the ignorant with the peevish and perverse he only hath true charity always remembring that our solid true peace and peace of God consists rather in complying with others than in being complied with in suffering and forbearing rather than in contention and victory Simplicity in our intentions and purity of affections are the two wings of a Soul investing it with the robes and resemblances of a Seraphim Intend the honour of God principally and sincerely and mingle not thy affections with any creature but in just subordination to God and to Religion and thou shalt have joy if there be any such thing in this World For there is no joy but in God and no sorrow but in an evil conscience Take not much care what or who is for thee or against thee the judgment of none is to be regarded if God's judgment be otherwise Thou art neither better nor worse in thy self for any account that is made of thee by any but by God alone secure that to thee and he will secure all the rest SATURDAY The seventh Decad. BLessed is he that understands what it is to love Jesus and contends earnestly to be like him Nothing else can satisfie or make us perfect But be thou a bearer of his Cross as well as a lover of his Kingdom Suffer tribulation for him or from him with the same spirit thou receivest consolation follow him as well for the bitter Cup of his passion as for the Loaves and remember that if it be a hard saying Take up my Cross and follow me it is a harder saying Go ye Cursed into everlasting fire No man can always have the same spiritual pleasure in his Prayers For the greatest Saints have sometimes suffered the banishment of the heart sometimes are fervent sometimes they feel a barrenness of Devotion for this Spirit comes and goes Rest therefore only in God and in doing thy duty and know that if thou beest over-joyed to day this hour will pass away and temptation and sadness will succeed In all afflictions seek rather for Patience than for Comfort if thou preservest that this will return Any man would serve God if he felt pleasure in it always but the vertuous does it when his Soul is full of heaviness and regards not himself but God and hates that consolation that lessens his compunction but loves any thing whereby his is made more humble That which thou dost not understand when thou readest thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation for there are many secrets of Religion which are not perceived till they be felt and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity He that prays despairs not But sad is the condition of him that cannot pray Happy are they that can and do and love to do it He that will be pleased in his prayers must make his prayers his Rule All our duty is there set down because in all our duty we beg the Divine Assistance and remember that you are bound to do all those duties for the doing of which you have prayed for the Divine Assistance Be doing actions of Religion as often as thou canst and thy worldly pleasures as seldom that if thou beest surprised by sudden death it may be odds but thou mayest be taken at thy Prayers Watch and resist the Devil in all his Temptations and Snares His chief designs are these to hinder thy desire in good to put thee by from thy Spiritual imployment from Prayers especially from the Meditation of the Passion from the remembrance of thy Sins from humble Confession of them from speedy Repentance from the custody of thy Senses and of thy Heart from firm purposes of growing in grace from reading good Books and frequent receiving the Holy Sacrament It is all one to him if he deceives the by a lye or by truth whether he amaze or trouble thee by love of the present or fear of the future Watch him but in these things and there will be no part left unarmed