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VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY JEREMY TAYLOR, D. D.
CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO KING CHARLES THE FIRST, AND LATE
LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY WELLS AND LILLY.

SOLD BY VAN WINKLE AND WILEY, NEW-YORK-AND M. CAREY, PHILADELPHIA.

1816

THE

RIGHTEOUSNESS EVANGELICAL

DESCRIBED.......THE CHRISTIAN'S CONQUEST OVER THE BODY OF SIN.......FIDES FORMATA; OR FAITH WORKING BY LOVE........IN THREE SERMONS, PREACHED AT CHRIST CHURCH, Dublin.

TO THE MOST NOBLE AND VIRTUOUS PRINCESS,

THE LADY DUCHESS OF ORMOND,

HER GRACE.

MADAM,

I PRESENT your Grace here with a testimony of my obedience, and of your zeal for the good of souls. You were in your great charity, not only pleased to pardon the weakness of this discourse, but to hope it might serve as a memorial to those that need it, of the great necessity of living virtuously, and by the measures of Christianity. Madam, you are too great and too good to have any ambition for the things of this world ; but I cannot but observe, that in your designs for the other world, you, by your charity and zeal, adopt yourself into the portion of those ecclesiasticks, who humbly hope, and truly labour for the reward that is promised to those wise persons who convert souls, if our prayers and your desires that every one should be profited in their eternal concerns, cast in a symbol towards this great work, and will give you a title to that great reward: but, Madam, when I received your commands for dispersing some copies of this Sermon, I perceived it was too little to be presented to your Eminence; and if it were accompanied 2

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