Selected WorksPaulist Press, 1990 - 526 pages The Classics series, which has inspired many less-successful imitations over the years, has fulfilled its promise and given us an invaluable resource of the soul. The Catholic Historical Review Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works edited with an introduction by Thomas K. Carroll preface by John Booty Learn to despise the world; or, which is a better compendium in the duty, learn but truly to understand it; for it is a cousenage all the way; the head of its rainbow, and the face of it is flattery; its words are charmes, and all its stories are false; its body is a shadow, and its hands do knit spiders webs. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) Jeremy Taylor lived in an age of transition. Politically, England was emerging as a modern state, struggling with its new autonomy and experimenting with representative government. Religiously, the Puritan voices of the radical Reformation battled with the established church to move it from the via media. Intellectually, it was an age in which new philosophical voices were emerging and bards were composing their odes not in the learned classical languages of antiquity but in English. Taylor saw the completion of the Authorized Version of King James near the beginning of his life: an eloquent precursor of the monumental achievements that men like Donne, Milton, and Bunyan would make during his lifetime. Taylor has been called the "Shakespeare of the Divines." Like his older contemporary Lancelot Andrewes, he drew on the spirit of the Renaissance. Rich classical allusions, ornate symbolism, and flowing cadences enhance his presentation of the sacred truths of holy writ. His own experience of life made him no stranger to suffering, having buried his first wife and all of his five sons. In his best-known work, Holy Dying, we have not only a fine example of a genre of spiritual literature common to the late Middle Ages, but one of the moving meditations on death ever written. In it we see a man proclaiming the truths of Christianity, not with the bold speculative originality of mystics like Eckhart or the systematic precision of Albert the Great, but with a sheer literary brilliance that enabled him to craft words that stood like windows to the unseen world of which they spoke: words that could awaken and stir, that could define and articulate the myriad sentiments and subtleties of the holy life. In this volume the whole range of Taylor's achievement is surveyed. His work as a pilgrim and pastor, theologian and priest, poet and preacher is presented with comprehensive introductions that highlight how he blended the insights of the Fathers with the forces of his own time into brilliant new forms of expressions. + |
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... Baptism and Temptation Inclusively ... Part II : Beginning at the Time of His First Miracle Until the Second Year of His Preaching ... 15 15 38 59 79 82 84 87 87 93 123 Part III : Beginning at the Second Year of His Preaching Until His ...
... Baptism and Temptation Inclusively ... Part II : Beginning at the Time of His First Miracle Until the Second Year of His Preaching ... 15 15 38 59 79 82 84 87 87 93 123 Part III : Beginning at the Second Year of His Preaching Until His ...
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... Baptism 239 Baptism .... 248 A Discourse of Confirmation 254 Sermon XVII : The Marriage Ring 261 Chapter Three : Faith and Repentance 269 Introduction Texts : 269 Discourse VII of Faith 277 Credenda 291 Discourse IX of Repentance 304 Of ...
... Baptism 239 Baptism .... 248 A Discourse of Confirmation 254 Sermon XVII : The Marriage Ring 261 Chapter Three : Faith and Repentance 269 Introduction Texts : 269 Discourse VII of Faith 277 Credenda 291 Discourse IX of Repentance 304 Of ...
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... AND PASTOR The records of Holy Trinity Church , Cambridge , show that Jer- emy , fourth of six children born to Nathaniel and Mary Taylor , was baptized on I5 August I6I3 where his father , like 15 Introduction Pilgrim and Pastor.
... AND PASTOR The records of Holy Trinity Church , Cambridge , show that Jer- emy , fourth of six children born to Nathaniel and Mary Taylor , was baptized on I5 August I6I3 where his father , like 15 Introduction Pilgrim and Pastor.
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Jeremy Taylor Thomas K. Carroll. baptized on I5 August I6I3 where his father , like his father before him , was a church warden . His attendance at Perse Grammar School in Cambridge is also recorded , as is his entry on I8 August I626 to ...
Jeremy Taylor Thomas K. Carroll. baptized on I5 August I6I3 where his father , like his father before him , was a church warden . His attendance at Perse Grammar School in Cambridge is also recorded , as is his entry on I8 August I626 to ...
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... baptism , there is neither a presence nor a power , but a vivid remembering of the Lord's passion and death as the moment of one's salvation in the past.49 This debate was further complicated by John Calvin , the Frenchman from Geneva ...
... baptism , there is neither a presence nor a power , but a vivid remembering of the Lord's passion and death as the moment of one's salvation in the past.49 This debate was further complicated by John Calvin , the Frenchman from Geneva ...
Contents
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Poet and Preacher | 59 |
Secondary Sources | 82 |
Second Year of His Preaching | 123 |
The Heavenly Sacrifice and Earthly Sacraments | 193 |
Faith and Repentance | 269 |
Necessarium | 335 |
Holy Living and Holy Dying | 427 |
Bibliography | 505 |
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Page 154 - Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took Him, and began to rebuke Him, saying, Be it far from Thee, Lord: this shall not be unto Thee.
Page 398 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Page 107 - And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Page 319 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 272 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 110 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 104 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him.
Page 244 - ... believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth : And in Jesus Christ his only...
Page 106 - And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him : and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Page 323 - Christ ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance : but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.