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

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.

III.

III. Job's Curse.

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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;

V. Aurea Grana.

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).

1. THE FALL.

2. GUILT AND DESTINY.

3. ORIGINAL SIN.

4. NO MASTERS: ONE MASTER.

5. THE SOFT ANSWER.

6. HINDRANCES.

7. CONSCIENCE.

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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6. HINDRANCES.

He that will sow his field with hopefull seed,
Must every bramble, every thistle weed;
And when each hindrance to the graine is gone,
A fruitfull crop shall rise of corn alone.

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[al. ‘liberat,’ ‘resecat.’ Boethius, lib. iii. metr. 1.]

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6. HINDRANCES.