Background
Jerem Taylor was baptized on August 15, 1613 in Cambridge; he was the son of a barber.
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Jeremy Taylor lived in an age of transition. Politically, England was emerging as a modern state, struggling with its new autonomy and experimenting with representative government. Religiously, the Puritan voices of the radical Reformation battled with the established church to move it from the via media. Intellectually, it was an age in which new philosophical voices were emerging and bards were composing their odes not in the learned classical languages of antiquity but in English. Taylor saw the completion of the Authorized Version of King James near the beginning of his life: an eloquent precursor of the monumental achievements that men like Donne, Milton, and Bunyan would make during his lifetime. Taylor has been called the "Shakespeare of the Divines." Like his older contemporary Lancelot Andrewes, he drew on the spirit of the Renaissance. Rich classical allusions, ornate symbolism, and flowing cadences enhance his presentation of the sacred truths of holy writ. His own experience of life made him no stranger to suffering, having buried his first wife and all of his five sons. In his best-known work, Holy Dying, we have not only a fine example of a genre of spiritual literature common to the late Middle Ages, but one of the moving meditations on death ever written. In it we see a man proclaiming the truths of Christianity, not with the bold speculative originality of mystics like Eckhart or the systematic precision of Albert the Great, but with a sheer literary brilliance that enabled him to craft words that stood like windows to the unseen world of which they spoke: words that could awaken and stir, that could define and articulate the myriad sentiments and subtleties of the holy life. In this volume the whole range of Taylor's achievement is surveyed. His work as a pilgrim and pastor, theologian and priest, poet and preacher is presented with comprehensive introductions that highlight how he blended the insights of the Fathers with the forces of his own time into brilliant new forms of expressions.
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Jerem Taylor was baptized on August 15, 1613 in Cambridge; he was the son of a barber.
He was baptized on August 15, 1613, at Cambridge, where he later attended Perse Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College.
Taylor was probably ordained in 1633, the year in which he took his master's degree; he became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College and, two years later, a fellow at All Souls in Oxford.
In 1642 he received the degree D. D. at Oxford, and in the following year the king presented to him the rectory of Overstone, Northamptonshire.
In 1633, after taking Holy Orders, he substituted for a friend as preacher at St. Paul's Cathedral in London and there attracted the attention of Archbishop Laud, who became his patron.
After serving for a time as chaplain to Laud and to Charles I, he became rector of Uppingham, Rutlandshire.
Later he retired to Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, in Wales, where he was chaplain to the Earl of Carbery.
In 1645 he became private chaplain to Lord Carbery at his Golden Grove estate.
At the Restoration in 1660, Taylor published his comprehensive manual of moral theology, the Ductor Dubitantium.
That same year he was appointed bishop of Down and Connor; in 1661 he was appointed bishop of Dromore, in Ireland; and later vice-chancellor of Trinity College, in Dublin. Although he seemed conventional in his relations with the royal and Episcopal authorities, Taylor aroused controversy because of his defense of Christian toleration and his allegedly Pelagian views on original sin and justification, both of which were attacked by the Scottish Presbyterian Samuel Rutherford.
The importance of the text was not only in the quality of its prose but in the serenity of its ecumenical verdict: "Let it be enough that we secure our Interest of Heaven, " Taylor wrote, "for every good Man hopes to be saved as he is a Christian, and not as he is a Lutheran, or of another Division. "
Thus, he concluded, "He that would die holily and happily, must in this World love Tears, Humility, Solitude, and Repentance" (Taylor, 2:1:3).
In all these positions he strove to improve a situation made difficult not only by the enmity of the Roman Catholics, but also by the jealousy of the Presbyterian clergy.
He made occasional trips to London and was several times imprisoned by the officers of the Commonwealth.
In 1658 he accepted a lectureship at Lisburn in Ireland.
Taylor wrote voluminously on a number of religious subjects.
A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying (1646) is a remarkable plea for toleration, reducing essential Christianity to belief in the Apostles' Creed and a good life.
Both are practical manuals of devotion and conduct, and Holy Dying is colored by sincere emotion.
Today they are read almost exclusively for enjoyment of their rich style.
The same qualities are present in Taylor's sermons.
Holy Dying was written in the circumstances of the death of his wife, Phoebe, but was directed at a general audience as a self-help manual: "The first entire Body of Directions for sick and dying People, that I remember to have been publish'd in the Church of England. "
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Taylor was the great grandson of Rowland Taylor, the martyr (Jeremy Taylor, Nathan Taylor, Thomas Taylor I, Rowland Taylor). In 1636 Jeremy married Phoebe Langsdale with whom he had several children. Jeremy next married Joanna Brydges (daughter of Charles Stuart I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland and Miss Brydges).