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Protestant Episcopalian, Burkean, clerk in holy orders
Jeremy Taylor country
"God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself" - Benjamin Whichcote
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Jeremy Taylor country
"God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself" - Benjamin Whichcote
laudablepractice.blogspot.com
5.20pm in Jeremy Taylor country, as the weather grows colder and thoughts turn towards Stir-up Sunday.
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
5.20pm in Jeremy Taylor country, as the weather grows colder and thoughts turn towards Stir-up Sunday.
A joyful account in the Church Times of a renewal of the Syrian Orthodox Christian presence in south-eastern Turkey. These Syrian Orthodox Christians are an encouragement and example for the Quiet Revival in Europe.
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A joyful account in the Church Times of a renewal of the Syrian Orthodox Christian presence in south-eastern Turkey. These Syrian Orthodox Christians are an encouragement and example for the Quiet Revival in Europe.
"When Supernatural Duties are necessarily exacted, Natural are not rejected as needless. The Law of God therefore is, though principally delivered for instruction in the one, yet fraught with Precepts of the other also."
Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"When Supernatural Duties are necessarily exacted, Natural are not rejected as needless. The Law of God therefore is, though principally delivered for instruction in the one, yet fraught with Precepts of the other also."
Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker
As I perused the shelves of a friend's bookshop, I came across, and purchased, this gem.
And words from the foreword by RW.
And words from the foreword by RW.
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As I perused the shelves of a friend's bookshop, I came across, and purchased, this gem.
And words from the foreword by RW.
And words from the foreword by RW.
"The sufficiency of Scripture is not inconsistent, either with prudential government, or the necessary means of finding out the right sense of Scripture."
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"The sufficiency of Scripture is not inconsistent, either with prudential government, or the necessary means of finding out the right sense of Scripture."
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
From Zwingli's 'Of Baptism' - an interesting aspect of Zwingli's critique of the Anabaptists: they claim *too much* for Baptism (p.136). This is some distance from the Prayer Book Catechism: "generally necessary to salvation".
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
From Zwingli's 'Of Baptism' - an interesting aspect of Zwingli's critique of the Anabaptists: they claim *too much* for Baptism (p.136). This is some distance from the Prayer Book Catechism: "generally necessary to salvation".
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - the Holy Spirit poured out upon "all who are within the ship and bounds of the catholic church":
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - the Holy Spirit poured out upon "all who are within the ship and bounds of the catholic church":
From Zwingli's 'Of Baptism' - he begins by invoking patriotic imagery of allegiance to the Swiss Confederacy (p.131). While far from an adequate account of Baptism, there is something of an echo of this in the BCP's words accompanying the signing with the Cross.
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
From Zwingli's 'Of Baptism' - he begins by invoking patriotic imagery of allegiance to the Swiss Confederacy (p.131). While far from an adequate account of Baptism, there is something of an echo of this in the BCP's words accompanying the signing with the Cross.
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - a beautiful passage on "amiable captivity to the Spirit":
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - a beautiful passage on "amiable captivity to the Spirit":
In the introduction to Zwingli's 'Of Baptism' - a response to the Anabaptist challenge - Bromiley highlights the weaknesses of Zwingli's theology of Baptism, not least when contrasted with "Luther and the more developed 'sacramentalism' of the later Reformed school" (p.126f):
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In the introduction to Zwingli's 'Of Baptism' - a response to the Anabaptist challenge - Bromiley highlights the weaknesses of Zwingli's theology of Baptism, not least when contrasted with "Luther and the more developed 'sacramentalism' of the later Reformed school" (p.126f):
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - theosis, sacraments, and life in the Spirit, "articles of so mysterious a philosophy":
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - theosis, sacraments, and life in the Spirit, "articles of so mysterious a philosophy":
From Zwingli's 'Of the Upbringing and Education of Youth in Good Manners and Christian Discipline' (1523) - on reproving "wisely and wittily" (p.116):
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
From Zwingli's 'Of the Upbringing and Education of Youth in Good Manners and Christian Discipline' (1523) - on reproving "wisely and wittily" (p.116):
"We must not therefore expect him to give us clear answers if we constantly ask him what things are divine and what things ‘merely human’. The word 'merely' conceals precisely the point of view which Hooker declines" - CS Lewis on Hooker's 'Lawes'.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"We must not therefore expect him to give us clear answers if we constantly ask him what things are divine and what things ‘merely human’. The word 'merely' conceals precisely the point of view which Hooker declines" - CS Lewis on Hooker's 'Lawes'.
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on the "glorious mysteries" of the Gospel given "by the immediate inspirations of the Spirit":
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on the "glorious mysteries" of the Gospel given "by the immediate inspirations of the Spirit":
Harriet Backer, 'Churching, the Sacristy in Tanum Church' (1892). Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Harriet Backer, 'Churching, the Sacristy in Tanum Church' (1892). Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
From Zwingli's 'Of the Upbringing and Education of Youth in Good Manners and Christian Discipline' (1523) - quoting both the Apostle and Seneca, on sharing the good fortune and misfortune of others (p.114):
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
From Zwingli's 'Of the Upbringing and Education of Youth in Good Manners and Christian Discipline' (1523) - quoting both the Apostle and Seneca, on sharing the good fortune and misfortune of others (p.114):
A very fine use of the Apocrypha on a war memorial (in St Giles, Sheldon, Birmingham). There are a few examples of this use of 1 Maccabees 3.59 on memorials to the fallen of the Great War.
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A very fine use of the Apocrypha on a war memorial (in St Giles, Sheldon, Birmingham). There are a few examples of this use of 1 Maccabees 3.59 on memorials to the fallen of the Great War.
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
On this Remembrance Sunday, the 9th day of the month, Ps.46 was among the psalms at Morning Prayer: "He maketh wars to cease in all the world".
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
On this Remembrance Sunday, the 9th day of the month, Ps.46 was among the psalms at Morning Prayer: "He maketh wars to cease in all the world".
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
In 'Our Church', Roger Scruton refers to "the influence of Cranmer on Lawrence Binyon, whose poem 'For the Fallen' ... now occupies a more or less official place in Anglican liturgy", addressing "the need to face up to a slaughter so vast and so senseless".
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In 'Our Church', Roger Scruton refers to "the influence of Cranmer on Lawrence Binyon, whose poem 'For the Fallen' ... now occupies a more or less official place in Anglican liturgy", addressing "the need to face up to a slaughter so vast and so senseless".
The eve of Remembrance Sunday at The Middle Church, in the heart of Jeremy Taylor country. Amidst the bare trees, some autumnal colour remains. An echo of the poppies in Flanders fields.
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The eve of Remembrance Sunday at The Middle Church, in the heart of Jeremy Taylor country. Amidst the bare trees, some autumnal colour remains. An echo of the poppies in Flanders fields.
confusion, and an inevitable perturbation of all estates".
A significant (and characteristically Anglican) account of how grace does not destroy nature, both in the body politic and the ecclesiastical polity.
A significant (and characteristically Anglican) account of how grace does not destroy nature, both in the body politic and the ecclesiastical polity.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
confusion, and an inevitable perturbation of all estates".
A significant (and characteristically Anglican) account of how grace does not destroy nature, both in the body politic and the ecclesiastical polity.
A significant (and characteristically Anglican) account of how grace does not destroy nature, both in the body politic and the ecclesiastical polity.
another, hardly in our selves. Therefore if Grace should give every one that pretends to it, interest in that which is ano∣ther mans lawful Possession, no mans title could be certain to another, scarcely to himself; from whence must necessarily follow an incredible 2/3
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
another, hardly in our selves. Therefore if Grace should give every one that pretends to it, interest in that which is ano∣ther mans lawful Possession, no mans title could be certain to another, scarcely to himself; from whence must necessarily follow an incredible 2/3
Bishop Bramhall responding to Richard Baxter's defence (in 'The Grotian Religion') of the removal of Episcopalian clergy from their parishes in the 1640s:
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Bishop Bramhall responding to Richard Baxter's defence (in 'The Grotian Religion') of the removal of Episcopalian clergy from their parishes in the 1640s:
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
From Zwingli's 'Of the Upbringing and Education of Youth in Good Manners and Christian Discipline' (1523) - it is not without significance that Zwingli was unembarrassed about saying his vision of a Christian commonwealth had roots in the pre-Christian era (p.113):
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From Zwingli's 'Of the Upbringing and Education of Youth in Good Manners and Christian Discipline' (1523) - it is not without significance that Zwingli was unembarrassed about saying his vision of a Christian commonwealth had roots in the pre-Christian era (p.113):
"The fact that they [Royal Mail] seek out the expertise of someone from a Faculty of Theology and Religion shows how seriously they take the design of their stamps" - Professor Andrew Davison on the newly-released Royal Mail Christmas stamps.
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"The fact that they [Royal Mail] seek out the expertise of someone from a Faculty of Theology and Religion shows how seriously they take the design of their stamps" - Professor Andrew Davison on the newly-released Royal Mail Christmas stamps.