Holy living, a year book of thoughts from the works of Jeremy Taylor, with an intr. by F.W. Farrar |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actions affliction Agathocles alms Amalek angels apostles appetite armour of God blessed Saviour body charity choose Christian church Codrus conscience danger day of judgment death desires despised devil didst Divine duty earth enemies eternal evil excellent eyes faith Father fear felicity give glorious glory God's godly grace Gregory Nazianzen hath heart Heartsease heaven holy Holy Spirit honour hope humility infinitely innocent Jeremy Taylor Jesus Christ king kingdom labour live Lord Lysimachus man's meditation mercy miserable mortified nature necessity never obedience ourselves pardon passions peace perfect person Pharisees piety pleased pleasure portion praise pray prayer reason rejoice religion remember repentance reward rich righteousness sacrament servants serve shame sins sorrow soul spirit suffer temptation tempted Thee thine things Thou art Thou hast thyself trouble truth unto vanity virtue walk whatsoever wise Xenocrates zeal
Popular passages
Page 134 - And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
Page 219 - In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began...
Page 383 - And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Page 163 - It is a mighty change, that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us, who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness I36 137 and horror of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange.
Page 239 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 155 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 184 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 160 - He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath One that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Page 80 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 16 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...