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  1. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.

  2. Apr 10, 2024 · Jeremy Taylor (baptized Aug. 15, 1613, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1667, Lisburn, County Antrim, Ire.) was an Anglican clergyman and writer. Taylor was educated at the University of Cambridge and was ordained in 1633. He never lacked for patrons: Archbishop Laud granted him a fellowship to All Souls College, Oxford, in 1635 ...

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  3. Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of writing.

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  5. Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of writing.

  6. Jun 11, 2018 · The Anglican bishop and writer Jeremy Taylor (1613 – 1667), one of the key exemplars of pastoral care and a gifted writer, was born and educated in Cambridge, England. He was ranked by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the equal of Shakespeare and Milton.

  7. Of the many formal writings of Jeremy Taylor — the widely acknowledged master of seventeenth-century English theological prose — only one work is known to survive in his original manuscript: his epistolary discourse On the Reverence Due to the Altar (TaJ 2).

  8. Jeremy Taylor, Bishop and Theologian. (Anglican Calendar) Jeremy Taylor was born at Cambridge in 1613 and ordained in 1633. In the years between 1633 and the ascendency of the Puritans in 1645, he was a Fellow of two Cambridge colleges, and chaplain to Archbishop Laud and to King Charles.

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