Jeremy Taylor (1613 – 1667)
Clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.
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Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.
Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company,and choice of his actions.
Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.
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