COLLECTED FROM

THE SEVERAL WRITINGS OF

JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D.

BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR,

ADAPTED TO

THE FAMILY, THE CLOSET, THE SACRAMENT,

&c. &c. &c.

BY THE

REV. SAMUEL CLAPHAM, M.A.

VICAR OF CHRIST CHURCH, HANTS, RECTOR OF GUSSAGE ST. MICHAEL,

DORSET ; AND EDITOR OF THB LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN'3
ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, 62, st. PAUL'S

CHURCH-YARD; LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER ROW ;
VERNOR, HOOD AND SHARPE, POULTRY; HATCHARD, 190,
PICCADILLY ; SOLD ALSO BY TUCKER, CHRIST CHURCH ;
SHIPP, BLANDFORD ; AND BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1810,

DEDICATION.

TO THE

RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE TOMLINE, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN.

MY LORD,

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THE

arrangement of devotional exercises which folicits your Lordship’s Patronage is, it is hoped, so adapted to the various situations and conditions of Society, as may, by God's blessing, produce, what it is to be wished, were the natural result of fervent supplication, an hatred of sin, and a love of Religion-of Religion exemplified in undeviating probity and incorruptible fidelity; in a readiness to forgive injuries and succor distress—to administer comfort to the mourn er, and support to the fallen--to eradicate the tormenting passions of peevishness and pride, and to implant in their stead the amiable virtues of gentleness and benignity

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