Excerpt from Holy Living and Dying: With Prayers: Containing the Complete Duty of a Christian

Jeremy Taylor, the third son of Nathaniel Taylor, a barber-surgeon at Cambridge, was born on the 15th of August, 1613. His family, had formerly held a respectable rank in Gloucestershire; and he was lineally descended from Dr. Rowland Taylor, chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer, who suffered death at the stake, in the reign of Queen Mary. Jeremy Taylor was taught the rudiments of grammar and mathematics by his father, and in the Free-school at Cambridge he received further instruction. At the age of thirteen he was entered as a sizar of Caius College; and took his degree of master of arts, and was admitted into holy orders, in 1633. About this period he removed to London, having been engaged by a former chamber-fellow, of the name of Risden, to supply his place as lecturer of St. Paul's Cathedral for a short time. Here he preached, says Dr. Rust, "to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory, and by his florid and youthful beauty, and sweet and pleasant air, and sublime and raised discourses, he made his hearers take him for some young angel newly descended from the visions of glory." Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, having heard the fame of Taylor's eloquence, was anxious to hear him, and sent for the young divine to preach before him at Lambeth. The archbishop was highly pleased with his discourse, but observed that he was too young for the office he was then filling in St. Paul's. Taylor "humbly begged his grace to pardon that fault, and promised if he lived he would mend it." Being chancellor of the University of Oxford, Laud was desirous that Taylor should remove thither, either because he would be better enabled to advance him there, or, as Dr. Rust says, "to afford him better opportunities of study and improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of."

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