Readings from the works of great preachers from 1500 to the present day
3--Jeremy Taylor 's sermon ' Of the Spirit of Grace,' preached at Whitsuntide
Read by Basil Taylcr
Jeremy Taylor. the son of a Cambridge barber, was born in 1613 and took Holy Orders before he was twenty-one. At once he attracted the attention of Archbishop Laud and was made one of his chaplains, and then chaplain-in-ordinary to Charles I. This attachment to Laud and the Royalist cause had serious consequences for him after the King's defeat; and he was forced into temporary retirement as chaplain to Richard Vaughan. Earl of Carbery. It was during this period that Jeremy Taylor wrote his best-known books. ' Holy Living ' and ' Holy Dying': and preached the series of sermons from one of which this reading is taken. It was printed with others In 1651. After the Restoration Jeremy Taylor was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, and he died in 1667