The Golden Grove: A Choice Manual: Containing what is to be Believed, Practised, Desired, or Prayed For; The Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week. Also, Festival Hymns, According to the Manner of the Ancient Church Composed for the Use of the Devout; especially of Younger Persons. In Two Parts.

Published by Printed for J. Knapton, &c., London, 1761

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Leather spine, marbled paper over card, the book is split into two parts with several detached sections. 16 x 9.5 cm (6 3/8 x 4 inches). Frontispiece engraving of a clergyman pointing to a casket, saying, "This is the period of all human glory." Frontis partly detached. (i)-xiv, (15)-156 pp., text complete. Lacks one rear free end paper; the one present is torn with loss. First published in 1665. A simple instruction on the Christian faith, partly in the form of a catechism, and partly as commentary on the Nicene creed & Lord's Prayer, and partly as instructions on how to live a day as a pious Christian.Jeremiah (Jeremy) Taylor (1613-1667), a celebrated Anglican divine, chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I, imprisoned during the Protectorate of Cromwell. After the Restoration he was made Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland, and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin. His The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living has been found useful by many persons seeking piety and virtue, and his The Rule of Exercises of Holy Dying has been found to be of similar value.With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS. …

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The Golden Grove: A Choice Manual: Containing what is to be Believed, Practised, Desired, or Prayed For; The Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week. Also, Festival Hymns, According to the Manner of the Ancient Church Composed for the Use of the Devout; especially of Younger Persons. In Two Parts.
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Taylor, Jeremiah
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Printed for J. Knapton, &c., London
Publication year
1761
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The Twenty-eighth Edition.
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