Editing Jeremy Taylor (section)

== Writings ==
[[Holy Living and Holy Dying|''The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living'']] provided a manual of Christian practice, which has retained its place with devout readers. The scope of the work is described on the title page. It deals with the means and instruments of obtaining every virtue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations, together with prayers containing the whole Duty of a Christian. ''Holy Dying'' was perhaps even more popular. A very charming piece of work of a lighter kind was inspired by a question from his friend, [[Katherine Philipps]] ("the matchless Orinda"), asking ''How far is a dear and perfect friendship authorised by the principles of Christianity?'' In answer to this, he dedicated to Mrs Phillipps his ''Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship'' (1657). His ''Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience …'' (1660) was intended to be the standard manual of [[casuistry]] and ethics for the Christian people.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=470}}<ref>J. Franklin, ''The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 86–88.</ref> His works were translated into Welsh by [[Nathanael Jones]].