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Jeremy Taylor

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“My trust is in God.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1667 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 August 1667: Last words, also quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors, p. 44
“The Church hath power to intend our Faith, but not to extend it; to make our belief more evident, but not more large and comprehensive. For Christ and his Apostles concealed nothing that was necessary to the integrity of Christian Faith, or salvation of our souls; Christ declared all the will of his Father, and the Apostles were Stewards and Dispensers of the same Mysteries, and were faithful in all the house, and therefore concealed nothing, but taught the whole Doctrine of Christ; so they said themselves.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 1.
“For heresy is not an error of the understanding, but an error of the will. And this is clearly insinuated in Scripture, in the style whereof Faith and a good life are made one duty, and vice is called opposite to Faith, and heresy opposed to holiness and sanctity.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 2.
“He that submits his understanding to all that he knows God hath said, and is ready to submit to all that he hath said if he but know it, denying his own affections and ends, and interests and humane persuasions, laying them all down at the foot of his great Master Jesus Christ, that man hath brought his understanding into subjection, and every proud thought unto the obedience of Christ, and this is εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως, the obedience of Faith, which is the duty of a Christian.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 2
“Honorius was condemned for a Monothelite; yet in one of the Epistles which the sixth Synod alleged against him, (viz. the second) he gave them counsel that would have done the Church as much service as the determination of the Article did; for he advised them not to be curious in their disputings, nor dogmatical in their determinations about that Question; and because the Church was not used to dispute in that Question, it were better to preserve the simplicity of Faith, then to ensnare mens consciences by a new Article.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 2
“When men think every thing to be their Faith and their Religion, commonly they are so busy in trifles and such impertinencies in which the scene of their mistake lies, that they neglect the greater things of the Law, charity, and compliances, and the gentleness of Christian Communion; for this is the great principle of mischief, and yet is not more pernicious then unreasonable.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 2
“If Scripture be the repository of all Divine Truths sufficient for us, Tradition must be considered as its instrument, to convey its great mysteriousness to our understandings.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 5
“The Authority of a Council is not greater then the Authority of the Apostles, nor their dictates more sacred or authentic.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 6
“Is it possible for any man to contrive a way to make the Decree of the Council of Trent, commanding the public Offices of the Church to be in Latin, friends with the fourteenth chapter of the Corinthians?”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 6
“For [the passage] pasce oves [feed my sheep] there is little in that Allegation, besides the boldness of the Objectors; for were not all the Apostles bound to feed Christ's sheep? had they not all the Commission from Christ, and Christ's Spirit immediately? S. Paul had certainly; did not S. Peter himself say to all the Bishops of Pon∣tus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithinia, that they should feed the flock of God, and the great Bishop and Shepherd should give them an immarcescible Crown; plainly implying, that from whence they derived their Authority, from him they were sure of a reward.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 7
“But I am too long in this impertinency: If I were bound to call any man Master upon earth, and to believe him upon his own affirmative and authority; I would of all men least follow him that pretends he is infallible and cannot prove it. For that he cannot prove it, makes me as uncertain as ever, and that he pretends to infallibility makes him careless of using such means which will morally secure those wise persons, who knowing their own aptness to be deceived, use what endeavours they can to secure themselves from error, and so be∣come the better and more probable guides.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 7
“We are bound to follow because we judge it true, not because the Church hath said it, and this is to judge of the Church by her Doctrine, not of the Doctrine by the Church. And indeed it is the best and only way.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 9
“No man speaks more unreasonably, then he that denies to men the use of their Reason in choice of their Religion.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 10
“Now although men's understandings be not equal, and that it is fit the best understandings should prevail, yet that will not satisfy the weaker understandings, because all men will not think that another understanding is better than his own, at least not in such a particular, in which with fancy he hath pleased himself. But commonly they that are least able, are most bold, and the more ignorant is the more confident, therefore it is but reason if he would have another bear with him, he also should bear with another, and if he will not be prescribed to, neither let him prescribe to others.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 11
“Nothing is more dishonourable to God, then to offer a sin in sacrifice to Him, and nothing more incongruous in the nature of the thing, then that truth and falsehood should support each other, or that true doctrine should live at the charges of a lie.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 11
“Either the disagreeing person is in error, or not, but a true believer; in either of the cases to persecute him is extremely imprudent. For if he be a true believer, then it is a clear case that we do open violence to God, and his servants, and his truth. If he be in error, what greater folly and stupidity then to give to error the glory of Martyrdom, and the advantages which are accidentally consequent to a persecution?”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 13
“Force in matters of opinion can do no good, but is very apt to do hurt.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 13
“It is not only lawful to tolerate disagreeing persuasions, but the authority of God only is competent to take notice of it, and infallible to determine it, and fit to judge, and therefore no human authority is sufficient to do all those things which can justify the inflicting temporal punishments upon such as do not conform in their persuasions to a rule or authority which is not only fallible, but supposed by the disagreeing person to be actually deceived.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 16
“If a permission be given of disputing the particulars, the questions become next to infinite. A Mirror when it is broken represents the object multiplied and divided: but if it be entire and through one center transmits the species to the eye, the Vision is one and natural. Laws are the Mirror in which men are to dress and compose their actions, and therefore must not be broken with such clauses of exception which may without remedy be abused to the prejudice of authority, and peace, and all human sanctions.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 17
“The mere doctrines and opinions of men are things Spiritual, and therefore not Cognoscible by a temporal Authority; and the Ecclesiastical Authority, which is to take Cognisance is itself so Spiritual, that it cannot inflict any punishment corporal.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 20
“True Faith which leads to charity leads on to that which unites wills and affections, not opinions.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 21
“God will not be angry at men for being invincibly deceived, why should men be angry one at another? For he that is most displeased at another man's error, may also be tempted in his own will, and as much deceived in his understanding. For if he may fail in what he can choose, he may also fail in what he cannot choose: His understanding is no more secured than his will, nor his Faith more than his obedience.”
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Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Section 22
“...if love hath filled all the corners of our soul, it alone is able to do all the work of God.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, introduction.
“He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), chapter. 1, section 1
“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.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, section 2
“God is in the bowels of thy brother; refresh them, when he needs it, and then you give your alms in the presence of God, and to God; and He feels the relief which thou providest for thy brother.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, section 3
“O let Thy mercy descend upon the whole church; preserve her in truth and peace, in unity and safety, in all storms, and against all temptations and enemies; that she, offering to Thy glory the never-ceasing sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, may advance the honour of her Lord, and be filled with His Spirit, and partake of His glory. Amen.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, Prayers and Devotions
“Faith, hope, and charity are the best weapons in the world to fight against intemperance.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650) ch. 2, section 2.
“Some married persons, even in their marriage, do better please God than some virgins in their state of virginity: they, by giving great example of conjugal affection, by preserving their faith unbroken, by educating children in the fear of God, by patience, and contentedness, and holy thoughts, and the exercise of virtues proper to that state, do not only please God, but do in a higher degree than those virgins whose piety is not answerable to their great opportunities and advantages.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 2, section 3
“...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".
“My children are not so much mine as they are God’s.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 2, section 6.
“...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...”
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Recorded in: Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".
“God gave necessities to man, that all men might need; and several abilities to several persons, that each man might help to supply the public needs, and, by joining to fill up all wants, they may be knit together by justice, as the parts of the world are by nature.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 3, introduction.
“Let no man appropriate to his own use what God, by a special mercy, or the republic, hath made common; for that is both against justice and charity too; and by miraculous accidents, God hath declared his displeasure against such enclosure.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 3, section 3.
“Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.
“Remember that zeal, being an excrescence of divine love, must in no sense contradict any action of love. Love to God includes love to our neighbour; and therefore no pretence of zeal for God’s glory must make us uncharitable to our brother; for that is just so pleasing to God as hatred is an act of love.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.
“The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 4.
“Upon the wings of fasting and alms holy prayer infallibly mounts up to heaven.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 5.
“Love is as communicative as fire, as busy and as active...”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 8.
“If any man be well grown in grace, he must needs come [to receive the Eucharist], because he is excellently disposed to so holy a feast: but he that is but in the infancy of piety had need to come, that so he may grow in grace. The strong must come lest they become weak; and the weak that they may become strong. The sick must come to be cured; the healthful to be preserved.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 10.
“O holy and ever-blessed Spirit, Who didst overshadow the holy Virgin, the mother of our Lord, and caused her to conceive by a miraculous and mysterious manner, be pleased to overshadow my soul, and enlighten my spirit, that I may conceive the holy Jesus in my heart, and may bear Him in my mind, and may grow up to the fulness of the stature of Christ, to be a perfect man in Christ Jesus. Amen.”
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Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), Prayers for All Sorts of Men and All Necessities, Special Devotions to be used upon the Lords Day, and the great Festivals of Christians.
“All that a sick and dying man can do, is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired, and to perfect that repentance, which was begun more early.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), Dedication.
“By a daily examination of our actions we shall the easier cure a great sin, and prevent its arrival to become habitual. For to examine we suppose to be a relative duty, and instrumental to something else. We examine ourselves, that we may find out our failings and cure them; and therefore if we use our remedy when the wound is fresh and bleeding, we shall find the cure more certain and less painful.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 2, section 2.
“And what can be greater than that from the goodness and love of God we receive Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and adoption, and the inheritance of sons, and to be coheirs with Jesus, and to have pardon of our sins, and a Divine nature, and restraining grace and the grace of sanctification, and rest and peace within us, and a certain expectation of glory?”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 4, section 6.
“O most gracious and eternal God and loving Father, Who hast poured out Thy bowels upon us, and sent the Son of Thy love unto us to die for love, and to make us dwell in love, and the eternal comprehensions of Thy Divine mercies, O be pleased to inflame my heart with a holy charity towards Thee and all the world.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 4, section 10.
“But exhortations must prevail with their own proper weight, not by the passion of the speaker.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 5, section 2.
“The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 5, section 4.
“Virtue and vice are oftentimes so near neighbours that we pass into each other’s borders without observation, and think we do justice when we are cruel; or call ourselves liberal when we are loose and foolish in expenses; and are amorous when we commend our own civilities and good nature.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 5, section 6.
“It remains, that we who are alive should so live, and by the actions of religion attend the coming of the day of the Lord, that we neither be surprised nor leave our duties imperfect, nor our sins uncancelled, nor our persons unreconciled, nor God unappeased; but that, when we descend to our graves, we may rest in the bosom of the Lord, till the mansions be prepared where we shall sing and feast eternally. Amen. Te Deum laudamus.”
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Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 5, section 8.
“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.”
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