THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY LIVING bound with: THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY DYING

LONDON: for JOHN MEREDITH in Trust for Royston and Elizabeth Meredith, 1706. 20th Edition . Full Calf. Good/No Jacket. Two volumes bound in one. The full titles read: The rule and exercises of Holy Living : in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnished for all necessities. By Jer. Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in ordinary to King Charles the First. The twentieth edition. London, printed by J. Heptinstall, for John Meredith 1706. The rule and exercises of Holy Dying : in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively for a blessed death; and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sickness; together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance. To which are added, rules for the visitation of the sick, and offices proper for that ministry. The twentieth edition. London, printed by J. L. for John Meredith. Bound in contemporary full calf with Oxford panels. Roughly repaired with overlaid antique leather backstrip. Lacks front endpapers, followed by title page to Holy Dying. Prelims to Holy Living frayed. Single engraved title page to both books present, frayed at edges. All up to p46 of Holy Living loose but present. Lacks one leaf: p47/48. Engraved frontis to Holy Dying, plus title page. Thus only two engraved leaves present. Final leaf frayed, with adverts on final page. A scarce classic from an extraordinary period of the Church in contemporary calf. Scarce.