Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)) Paperback – January 1, 1990

Purchased this to add to my Classics of Western Spirituality collection. When I get around to reading it, probably years from now, I'll probably review it then.

Jeremy Taylor deserves a wider audience than those who are interested only in Christian classics.He is also a prose stylist of the first water. Read him, and you will see where DeQuincey got his chops. As he warms to the solemn themes about which he writes, his sentences are like great rivers of poetic and exalted language. His experience as a preacher also makes him a great master of the -sound- of words.

Beautiful, inspiring, comforting, uplifting, chastening - orthodox, eloquent, robust and true. These are wonderful writings: not plodding, not dull, not morose and boorish; never less than exhilarating, memorable, winsome, merciful, bold - in short, *faithful*. In a time when the world and the Church is parched for the beautiful and immutable truths of God, and almost altogether absent of men who will stand up confidently in service of them, this is a most reassuring and helpful book for the believer.Jeremy Taylor loved the Triune God with all his heart, and mind, and soul, and strength, and these pages are therefore fresh with the thoughts, feelings and pastoral guidance of a very lively apostle of Jesus Christ our Lord.Especially excellent for Anglicans, who have been unfairly and almost accidentally deprived of the colossal heritage of their church these past 50-odd years.