The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Lord Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, Vol. 6 of 15 : With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings (Classic Reprint)

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He that is better than the dregs of his Own age, whose religion is something above profaneness, and whose sobriety is 93) step or two from downright intemperance, whose dis course is not swearing, nor yet apt to edify, whose charity is set out in piety, and a gentle yearning and saying God. Help,' whose alms are contemptible, and his devotion infre quent; yet, as things are now, he is unus e millibus,' one of a thousand,' and he stands eminent and conspicuous in the vallies and lower grounds of the present piety; for a bank is a mountain upon a level but what is rare and eminent in the manners of men this day, would have been scandalous, and have deserved the rod of an apostle, if it had been con fronted with the fervours and rare devotion and religion of our fathers in the Gospel.

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