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PROLUSIONS:

OR,

SELECT PIECES

FROM

Bishop TAYLOR and Mr.HERBERT.

By the Rev. JOHN WHEELDON, A.M.
Teacher of a private Grammar School at St.Ives, Huntingdonshire.

WITH A

PREFACE

AND A

DISCOURSE ON REV. xviii. 21.

By the EDITOR.

VOLO SOLIDUM PERENNE.

LONDON,

Printed for J. BEECROFT, in Paster-nofter-Row, and
T. CADELL, in the Strand, London; J.WOODYER,
at Cambridge; and H. BIGGS, at St. Ives.

M.DCC.LXVIII.

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19 74001

TO THE

CLERGY

OF THE

County of Huntingdon.

I

Reverend SIRS,

MPERTINENCE and Pefurmption, though not abfolutely defenfible, yet when they bring Jewels or Gold, are capable of Apology and Pardon - For, as a real Diamond will always fparkle even from an indelicate Hand, the value of the Prefent will charm down all Difdain against the Bearer, who may be faid to come not fo much with a Petition, as a Claim to Acceptance -- Honour and Applaufe, in the best Meaning of the Maxim, are Shadows that always attend Worth and Efleem, upon great Bodies Ability and Admiration are infeparable and eternal; and my deep Veneration for the Names

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Names of Taylor and Herbert,make me confident in afferting that no Friend to Religion or Genius can refuse them a Share in their Affection -It was the fingular Felicity of these eminent Divines to poffefs the rare Union of the Head and Heart-"Like Eagles to have their Neft on a Rock, and to bear their Young on their Wings,"- viz. to have the Power and the Will of being a univerfal Bleffing.

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Before I mention the Reasons of my publifhing these felect Pieces, perhaps fome of Readers like to know that Jeremy Taylor bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland was born in Cambridge, and there had his Education. Upon entering into Orders, he was fome time Divinity Lecturer of St. Paul's in London, and was afterwards by the Intereft of Archbishop Laud, elected fellow of All-fouls College in 1636. Two Years after he became one of the Chaplains of the Archbishop, who bestowed on him the Rectory of Uppingham in Rutlandshire. In 1642 he was, with others, by virtue of his Majesty's Letters fent to the University of Oxford, created D. D. he being then Chaplain to the King, and a frequent Preacher before his Majesty and the Court at Oxford. He afterwards attended in the King's Army in the Condition of a Chaplain. Upon the declining of his Majefty's Caufe, he retired into Wales, where, under the Protection of the Earl of Carbury, of the Golden Grove in Carmarthenshire, he was permitted to offi

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