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The Whole Works of Jeremy Taylor, With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by R. Heber. Revised and Corrected by
The Whole Works of Jeremy Taylor With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by R Heber Revised and Corrected by Author:Jeremy Taylor Title: The Whole Works of ... Jeremy Taylor, With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by R. Heber. Revised and Corrected by C.p. Eden General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or m... more »issing 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 AUTHOR'S PREFACE" THE APOLOGY FOR AUTHORIZED AND SET FORMS OF LITURGY. When judges were instead of kings, and Hophni and Phinebas were among the priests, every man did what was right in his own eyes, but few did what was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord ; and the event was this, God put on His fierce anger against them, and stirred up and armed the enemies of their country and religion, and they prevailed very far, against the expectation and confidence of them who thought the goodness of their cause would have borne out the iniquity of their persons, and that the impiety of their adversaries would have disabled them even from being made God's scourges and instruments of punishing His own people : the sadness of the event proved the vanity of their hopes ; for that which was the instrument of their worship, the determination of their religious addresses, the place where God did meet His people, from which the priests spake to God and God gave His oracles, that they dishonourably and miserably lost : the ark of the Lord was taken, the impious priests who made the sacrifice of the Lord to become an abomination to the people, were slain with the sword of the Phib'stines; old Eli lost his life, and the wife of Phinehas died with sorrow and the miscarriages of child-birth, crying out that ' the glory was departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.' 2. In these things we also have been but too like the sons of Israel ; for when ...« less