Holy Living and Holy Dying: Volume I: Holy Living

by Jeremy Taylor, P. G. Stanwood (Editor)

Overview

Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying are two of the most famous prose works of 17th-century English literature and among the greatest examples of Anglican spirituality. These new editions are the first critically edited and fully annotated editions to appear since 1842. The text is based on the first editions of 1650 and 1651 and includes textual variants, a full commentary, a textual introduction, and a general introduction recounting Taylor's life and the intellectual background of his devotional classics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198127055
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/12/1989
Series:	|c OET |t Oxford English Texts
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.81(h) x 1.11(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Jeremy Taylor	ix
Chapter 1	General Means toward a Holy Life
I	Care of Time	1
II	Purity of Intention	11
III	Practice of the Presence of God	20
Chapter 2	Christian Moderation (or Sobriety)
I	Moderation in a General Sense	29
II	Temperance in Eating and Drinking	33
III	Chastity	39
IV	Humility	50
V	Modesty	61
VI	Contentedness	65
Chapter 3	Christian Justice
I	Obedience	86
II	Duties of those in Authority	95
III	Civil Contracts	100
IV	Restitution	104
Chapter 4	Religious Devotion
I	Faith	109
II	Hope	115
III	Charity, or Love of God	121
IV	Reading and Hearing the Word of God	131
V	Fasting	134
VI	Keeping Holy Days	138
VII	Prayer	142
VIII	Alms, or Works of Mercy	154
IX	Repentance	170
X	Preparation for and Receiving the Sacrament	179
Chapter 5	Prayers and Devotions
	Forms for Morning Prayer	189
	Devotion for Any Hour of the Day	196
	Forms for Evening Prayer	199
	Prayers for All Occasions	203

Editorial Reviews

"Very sound, scholarly, and careful editions."—Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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