THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY LIVING BY JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D. GRIFFITH FARRAN OKEDEN & WELSH NEWBERY HOUSE CHARING CROSS ROAD LONDON AND AT SYDNEY PREFACE. श J' EREMY TAYLOR, the Author of the "Rule and Exercises of Holy Living," has been described as the Chrysostom of the Church of England, and is one of the most brilliant members of the group of learned divines and devout theologians who were gathered about the central figure of Archbishop Laud in the court of Charles I. Born at Cambridge in 1613, the son of a barber in the town, he obtained a sizarship at Caius College, in the university there, when only thirteen years of age; and after a distinguished academic course, took his degree of Master of Arts in 1633. He was admitted to holy orders before attaining his twenty-first year; and soon attracted the notice of the archbishop, whose influence obtained for him, in 1636, a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford. About the same time he became Chaplain-in-ordinary to the King, and in 1638 was preferred to the rectory of Uppingham, where he remained until driven from it by the growing successes of the Parliamentary party. For some time he appears to have attended the King in court and camp; but about the year 1646 withdrew with a friend, Mr Wyatt, of St. John's College, Oxford, to Newton, in Wales, where they opened a school; and Taylor was also appointed domestic chaplain b |