1810 JEREMY TAYLOR. Rules and Exercises of Holy Living. Influenced John Wesley. First American Edition. Ephemera from the poem Festus by

from the poem Festus by Philip James Bailey

at the Globe in Paternost-Press

in Cornhill

American Baptist Mission Press

1810 JEREMY TAYLOR. Rules and Exercises of Holy Living. Influenced John Wesley. First American Edition. Ephemera from the poem Festus byA very attractive first American edition in full calf of a true devotional, holiness classic. Jeremy Taylor [b. 1625] was one of the most experimental of the Anglican divines of the early 17th century. Both his Plain Account of Christian Perfection and Rules and Exercises for Holy Living were deeply influential, even in puritan circles. Wesley read them while at Oxford and was "exceedingly affected." To the last, these early encounters with Jeremy