Holy Living and Holy Dying
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living / The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
Jeremy Taylor·Holy Living 1650, Holy Dying 1651·from the En
A full modern English translation of the work — 1 book, 20 chapters — translated sentence by sentence from the En, with scripture echoes traced and brief notes on the harder turns of phrase. Choose a section to begin reading.
20 chapters767 sentences199 scripture echoes
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The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- 1.1CHAPTER I
- 1.2The first general instrument of Holy Living, Care of our Time.
- 1.3Rules for employing our Time.
- 1.4The Benefits of this Exercise.
- 1.5The second general instrument of Holy Living, Purity of Intention.
- 1.6Rules for our Intentions.
- 1.7Signs of our Purity of Intentions.
- 1.8SECTION III
- 1.9Several Manners of the Divine Presence.
- 1.10Rules of exercising this Consideration.
- 1.11The benefits of this Exercise.
- 1.12For grace to spend our time well.
- 1.13The first Prayers in the morning, as soon as we are dressed.
- 1.14Another Form of Prayer for the Morning.
- 1.15An Exercise to be used at any time of the day.
- 1.16Evening Prayer.
- 1.17Another form of Evening Prayer, which may also be used at bed-time.
- 1.18Ejaculations and short Meditations to be used in the night, when we awake.
- 1.19A Prayer for holy intention is the beginning and pursuit of any considerable action, as Study, Preaching, etc.
- 1.20A prayer meditating and referring to the Divine presence.