Jeremy Taylor in 'The Good and Evil Tongue', Part I, Sermon XXII, from his Golden Grove sermons - a meditation on the 'O Lord, open thou our lips' at Morning and Evening Prayer:

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Good and Evil Tongue', Part I, Sermon XXII, from his Golden Grove sermons - how the tongue is used for good:

What is most striking about this statement by CofE bishops welcoming HMG's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the complete absence of any reference to Palestinian Christian communities. The statement is merely fashionable political commentary, 1/2 www.churchofengland.org/media/press-...

On this 20th day of the month at Morning Prayer, Ps.102: "Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion : for it is time that thou have mercy upon her, yea, the time is come". From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm:

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part III, Sermon XXI, from his Golden Grove sermons - on the temporal consequences of sin. A description that resonated in these Kingdoms during the 1650s:

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part III, Sermon XXI, from his Golden Grove sermons - another one of those delightful passages from 'the Shakespeare of divines':

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part III, Sermon XXI, from his Golden Grove sermons - an example of how Taylor's theology of Original Sin did not prevent a robust view of the Fall: "Adam's [sin] was the worst, because it was of most universal efficacy and dissemination".

"The overriding objective is to demonstrate a significant shift that John Calvin introduces into the history of the exegesis of these eight Psalms" [i.e. Ps. 2, 8, 16, 22, 45, 72, 110] (p.7f).

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part II, Sermon XX, from his Golden Grove sermons - on our capacity for self-delusion:

Jeremy Taylor in 'Ductor Dubitantium': "There are also traditions pretended of things which are not necessary, such as are the Fast of Lent, Godfathers and Godmothers in baptisme, the mixture of wine and water in the Eucharistical chalice, the keeping of Easter upon 1/3

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part II, Sermon XX, from his Golden Grove sermons - "A man may better believe there is no such thing as man himself, and that he is not in being, than that there is no God":

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part II, Sermon XX, from his Golden Grove sermons - an anticipation here of Taylor's controversial works in the later 1650s on the Fall and Original Sin:

From PECUSA BCP 1928, A Prayer for The President of the United States, and all in Civil Authority:

A very good collection of essays. For a non-specialist like myself, it summarises and opens up recent work on Arian/Homian churches and theologies. Perhaps the most intriguing point is how Homians eventually rather easily entered into the Nicene Communion. Finis 10.9.25

Rowan Williams in 'Arius: Heresy and Tradition', on the structure of the 3rd century/early 4th century Alexandrian Church:

"... that Godly and excellent learned man, Oecolampadius" Cranmer in his 'Answer to Gardiner'.

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part I, Sermon XIX, from his Golden Grove sermons - "but relics and images of pleasure":

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part I, Sermon XIX, from his Golden Grove sermons - Taylor, who was a chaplain in the Royalist army during the civil wars, recalls an experience from the battlefield (something many of his hearers and readers would also have shared):

"... so little divided the denominations [Homian and Nicene] from a material and even liturgical point of view ... if a Christian entered a church in w city unknown to him, he would probably in most cases not know if he was in an 'Arian' or 'Catholic' church" (p.217).

8th September, Accession Day.

is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons,

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part I, Sermon XIX, from his Golden Grove sermons - sin is "troublesome and intricate, entangled and involved":

It is Gloriana Day. Elizabeth was born on this day in 1533. "God ... caused in the depths of discomfort and darkness a most glorious star to arise, and on her head settled the Crown" - Richard Hooker LEP IV.14.7.

The Deutsche Kirche, serving the German speaking Reformed community in Murten/Morat 🇨🇭.

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part I, Sermon XIX, from his Golden Grove sermons - "The pleasure of revenge is like the pleasure of eating chalk and coals":

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part I, Sermon XIX, from his Golden Grove sermons - "if a man were to curse his enemy, he could not wish him a greater evil than these":

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part I, Sermon XIX, from his Golden Grove sermons - on the "retinue and family of sin":

Resuming readings from 'An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists' (2024). Ralph Cudworth, in his 'The True Intellectual System of the Universe' (1671/78), on how the incomprehensible God is "more Knowable and Conceivable than any thing" (p.206):

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part II, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - as the sermon concludes, Taylor refers to St. Paul as a married saint. He had previously said in the sermon, "The Apostle ... who himself had been a married man, but was now a widower".

Hacket is a reminder of how the Restoration Church embraced anti-Laudian Reformed Conformists. He had been one of the divines appointed by the Lords in 1641 to roll back 'Laudianism'. He was one of the episcopal divines appointed to the Westminster Assembly. As with the 1/2

On the emergence of 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost' in the mid-4thC, as a Neo-Nicene critique of Homian subordinationist theology:

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part II, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - Taylor addresses situations in which a wife has "separate rites and manners of worshippings" to her husband. This may be a very rare criticism in Taylor of Charles I:

"... since according to the instruction of our blessed Saviour, God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth; no worshipping can be more true, or more spirituall then the Psalter said with a pure minde and a hearty devotion." Jeremy Taylor

St. James' Anglican Church, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. Built in 1850. Box pews, plain glass, Word and Sacrament.

Jeremy Taylor in 'Ductor Dubitantium': "Whatsoever is of the word of God, whatsoever ought to be known or preached of the Incarnation, of the true Divinity and Humanity of the Son of God, is so contain'd in both the Testaments, that besides these there is nothing that may 1/3

The Reformed Church in Túristvándi, in the Northern Great Plain of 🇭🇺.

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part II, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - "so many necessities and capacities of joy":

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part II, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - as Diarmaid MacCulloch puts it, "one cannot imagine a bishop of the Counter-Reformation entertaining his flock with such rhapsodies":

At Evening Prayer on the 27th day of the month, Ps.131: "I do not exercise myself in great matters : which are too high for me". From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, that we might be conformed to the Great Exemplar:

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part II, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - "the same religion, the same interest, 'the same flesh'":

"Though men should speake with the tunges of Angels, yeat words so pleasinge to the eares of God as those which the Sonne of God him selfe hath composed were not possible for men to frame" Richard Hooker LEP V.35.3

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part I, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - "equal necessities and obligations":

Holy Trinity, Soldierstown, on this beautiful late Summer's day. The church was built in 1666/67 by Jeremy Taylor's patron Lord Conway, in the style of The Middle Church. The steeple was added in 1827.

On this 25th day of the month at Morning Prayer, Ps.119.33-72: "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies ... I will keep thy commandments with my whole heart". We see Ps.119 as a response to the daily call of the Venite, "Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts".

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part I, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - the meaning of "with all my worldly goods I thee endow":

Late August twilight at The Middle Church, in the heart of Jeremy Taylor country.

St. Bartholomew's Day, a day to give thanks for the restoration of good order to the Church of England after "the late unhappy confusions". "You have ... no better way to appease and quiet the Quarrels in Religion which have been too long among us" - Jeremy Taylor on Conformity.

Jeremy Taylor in 'Ductor Dubitantium': "The summe is this, Nothing is matter of duty either in word or deed, in faith or manners, but what is written in the Scriptures: whatsoever is not written there it is left to our liberty, and we are to use it as all indifferent things 1/2

As Saint Bartholomew's Day approaches, a post on John Durel's defence of the Act of Uniformity and how he pointed to "the Reformed Churches of Hungary and Transylvania as he defends the episcopal and liturgical order of the English Church". laudablepractice.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Marriage Ring', Part I, Sermon XVII, from his Golden Grove sermons - as Diarmaid MacCulloch notes of Taylor's touching discourses on marriage, he "spoke from enjoyable experience of marriage":