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Holy Living and Dying Together With Prayers; Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian
Holy Living and Dying Together With Prayers Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian Author:Jeremy Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Longman Subjects: Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Religion / Christian Life / Devotional Religion / Devotional Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustration... more »s and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Means and Instruments to obtain Faith are, . A humble, willing, and docile mind, or desire to be instructed in the way of God: for persuasion enters like a sunbeam, gently, and without violence: and open but the window, and draw the curtain, and the Sun of Righteousness will enlighten your darkness. 2. Remove all prejudice and love to every thing which may be contradicted by faith. " How can ye believe (said Christ), that receive praise one of another?" An unchaste man cannot easily be brought to believe that, without purity, he shall never see God. He that loves riches can hardly believe the doctrine of poverty and renunciation of the world: and alms, and martyrdom, and the doctrine of the cross, is folly to him that loves his ease and pleasures. He that hath within him any principle contrary to the doctrines of faith, cannot easily become a disciple. 3. Prayer, which is instrumental to every thing, hath a particular promise in this thing: " He that lacks wisdom, let him ask it of God :" and, " If you give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Spirit to them that ask him 1" 4. The consideration of the Divine omnipotence and infinite wisdom, and our own ignorance, are great instruments of curing all doubting, and silencing the murmurs of infidelity." 5. Avoid all curiosity of inquiry into particulars, and circumstances, and mysteries : for true faith is full of ingenuity an...« less