A devotional handbook on ordering one's days in virtue and meeting death with a prepared soul.
Books that mention Holy Living and Holy Dying (3)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “There’s Jeremy Taylor’s ‘Holy Living and Dying’ among ’em. I read in it often of a Sunday”
Adam Bede by George Eliot: “he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War”
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler: “They got up Beveridge on the Thirty-nine Articles, and Pearson on the Creed; in their hours of recreation they read More's "Mystery of Godliness," which Ernest thought was charming, and Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying," which also impressed him deeply, through what he thought was the splendour of its language. They handed”