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The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

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II. Festival Hymns.
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HYMNS CELEBRATING THE MYSTERIES AND CHIEF FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE MANNER OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH: FITTED TO THE FANCY AND DEVOTION OF THE YOUNGER AND PIOUS PERSONS, Apt for memory, and to be joyned to their other PRAYERS.
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Hymns for Advent, or the weeks immediately before the Birth of our blessed Saviour.
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The Second Hymn for Advent; or Christ's coming to Jerusalem in Triumph.
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Hymns for Christmas-day.
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The Second Hymn; being a Dialogue between Three Shepherds.
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The Third Hymn: of Christ's Birth in an June.
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[The Fourth] Hymn for Christmas Day.
  
Chorus.
  
A Hymn upon St John's day.
  
Upon the Day of the Holy Innocents.
  
Upon the Epiphany, and the Three Wise Men of the East coming to Worship Jesus.
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A Meditation of the Four last things Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell For the time of Lent especially.
  
A Meditation of Death.
  
The Prayer.
  
Of the Day of Judgement.
  
Of Heaven.
  
Of Hell.
  
On the Conversion of St. Paul.
  
On the Purification of the blessed Virgin.
  
On Good-Friday.
  
On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
  
Easter Day.
  
On the day of Ascension.
  
On the Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsunday.
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Penitentiall Hymns.
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A prayer for Charity.
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III. Job's Curse.
  
[Let the night perish, cursèd be the morn]
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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
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1 St. Matthew.
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2 St. Marke.
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3. St. Luke.
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4. St. John.
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V. Aurea Grana.
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I. From “Deus Justificatus or a Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question of Original Sin: in a Letter to a Person of Quality.” 1656 (12o) and 1657 (folio).
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1. THE FALL.
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2. GUILT AND DESTINY.
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3. ORIGINAL SIN.
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4. NO MASTERS: ONE MASTER.
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5. THE SOFT ANSWER.
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6. HINDRANCES.
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7. CONSCIENCE.
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8. TRUE IF NEW.
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II. From “A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship” 1657 and 1673 (folio) and 1678 (12o.)
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9. FRIENDSHIPS.
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10. LOVE FOR LOVE.
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11. MUTUAL FRIENDS.
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12. A FRIEND NOT MONEY.
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13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.
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14. UNSELFISHNESS IN FRIENDSHIP.
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15. BROTHERS.
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16. FRIENDSHIP IMMORTAL.
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17. HELP IN ADVERSITY.

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On Good-Friday.

The Lamb is eaten, and is yet again
Preparing to be slain;
The cup is full and mixt,
And must be drunk:
Wormwood and gall
To this, are draughts to beguile care withall,
Yet the decree is fixt.
Doubled knees, and groans, and cries,
Prayers and sighs, and flowing eyes
Could not intreat
His sad soul, sunk
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Under the heavy preasure of our sin:
The pains of Death and Hell
About Him dwell.
His Father's burning wrath did make
His very heart, like melting wax, to sweat
Rivers of blood,
Through the pure strainer of his skin,
His boiling body stood
Bubling all o're
As if the wretched whole were but one dore
To let in pain and grief,
And turn out all relief.
O Thou, Who for our sake
Dids't drink up
This bitter cup:
Remember us, we pray,
In Thy day,
When down
The strugling throats of wicked men
The dregs of Thy just fury shall be thrown.
Oh then
Let Thy unbounded mercy think
On us, for whom
Thou underwent'st this heavy doom,
And give us of the well of life to drink.
Amen.
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