Thursday, June 10, 2010

Quotation:

This Prayer is especially to be used in temptation to private sin.

O almighty God, infinite and eternal, You fill all things with Your presence; You are every where by Your essence and by Your power; in heaven by glory, in holy places by Your grace and favor, in the hearts of Your servants by Your Spirit, in the consciences of all men by Your testimony and observation of us. Teach me to walk always as in Your presence, to fear Your majesty, to reverence Your wisdom and omniscience; that I may never dare to commit any indecency in the eye of my Lord and my Judge; but that I may with so much care and reverence demean myself that my Judge may not be my accuser, but my advocate; that I, expressing the belief of Your presence here by careful walking, may feel the effects of it in the participation of eternal glory, through Jesus Christ. Amen.
... Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), Holy Living [1650], in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., v. III, London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1847, p. 43
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