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Jeremy Taylor was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.Taylor was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. He went on to become chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I as a result of Laud's sponsorship. This made him politically suspect when Laud was tried by Parliament and executed in January 1644/5 during the English Civil War. After the parliamentary victory over the King, he was briefly imprisoned several times.

Eventually, he was allowed to live quietly in Wales, where he became the private chaplain of the Earl of Carbery. After the Restoration, he was made Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland. He also became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin.

He is remembered in the liturgical calendars of the Church of England and other Anglican churches. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. August 1613 – 13. August 1667
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Famous Jeremy Taylor Quotes

“Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?”

Jeremy Taylor

Sermon XX, Part II

“God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.”

Jeremy Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.

“He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.”

Jeremy Taylor

Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, section 1

“In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.”

Jeremy Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.

“The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.”

Jeremy Taylor

"Apples of Sodom," part II, sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)

“This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.”

Jeremy Taylor

Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, section 2

Jeremy Taylor Quotes

“God is pleased with no music from below so much as in the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows, of supported orphans, of rejoicing, and comforted, and thankful persons.”

Jeremy Taylor

Sermon XXV, Part IV: "The Duties of the Tongue"

“Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.”

Jeremy Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 218.

“Bishop Jeremy Taylor is clear, that men will find it impossible to do anything greatly good, unless they cut off all superfluous company and visits.”

Jeremy Taylor

George Horne, Olla Podrida, No. 9.
Attributed

“…since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”

Jeremy Taylor

"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".

“…for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens…”

Jeremy Taylor

"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".

“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”

Jeremy Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.

“The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not.”

Jeremy Taylor

But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
"Apples of Sodom," part II, sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)

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