Jeremy Taylor's Works

It seems desirable that an advance should occasionally be made in *editing*, beyond the mere verification of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the passages cited are *applicable* to the point in hand, and properly apprehended. Bp. Taylor, in his *Liberty of Prophecying*, sect. vi., for instance, seems incorrect in stating that Leo I., bishop of Rome, *rejected* the Council of Chalcedon; whereas his reproofs are directed against Anatolias, bishop of Constantinople, an unwelcome aspirant to ecclesiastical supremacy. (See *Concilia Studio Labbei*, tom. iv., col. 844, &c.) A passage frown J…