The king, amongst the many he had to reward, did not forget his father's Chaplains, who had remained unshaken amidst the jarring principles of the time, and now came forward to join in the congratulations which were offered to the restored sovereign with unexampled joy. The see of Canterbury, vacant since the execution of Laud, was filled by Juxon, translated from the see of London, and Sheldon promoted to his place; and Taylor, on the removal of Bishop Lesly to the see of Meath, was preferred to that of Down and Connor.

But though the prospect of promotion and honor was now full in his view, he was not distracted from the prime object of his life; the advancement of true and vital Christianity;

See Kennet's Reg. and Chron. p. 120.

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and in the autumn of the same year, during the time he was in England, and whilst he was only Bishop elect of Down and Connor, he published "the Worthy Communicant: or "a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and 66 Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving "of the Lord's Supper; and of all the Duties "required in order to a worthy Preparation: "Together with the Cases of Conscience oc"curring in the duty of him that ministers, "and of him that communicates. d" This he addressed to Mary, Princess of Great Britain, Dowager of Orange, who was now in England in order to congratulate her brother on his happy Restoration, and who died in the December following. She was the eldest daughter of king Charles the First, and widow of William of Nassau, only son of Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, and was the mother of King William the Third.

The beneficent protection which this amiable princess afforded to many of those who fled

Dr. Taylor was the thirty-ninth Bishop of Down, the fortieth Bishop of Connor, and the sixteenth Bishop after the union of these sees. SeeWare's Catal. of Irish Prelates. It was published in August 1660, see Kennet's RegP. 245, in Lond.

from their country during the Civil War, and her obedience to the strictest rules of religion, was Taylor's inducement for offering this work to her notice. The dedication is written under those strong impressions which a Loyalist, who had felt the oppression of the times may be supposed to receive upon the return of order and peace. These urged him to a strain of compliment that but ill accorded with the real character of Charles; who is introduced into the Dedication as the brother of her, to whose virtues he is offering the present manual.

The style of this work is as elevated as any of the Bishop's writings. The mind is not only instructed by it, but raised, and the spirit warmed and purified. As a specimen of the truth of this assertion, amongst many others, the following passage may be selected. "That we may know where to find our Lord, "we must be sure to look after him; he hath "told us where he would be, behind what

pillar, and under what cloud, and covered "with what veil, and conveyed by what mi

nistry, and present in what sacrament; and "we must not look for him in the highways "of ambition and pride, of wealth or sensual

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pleasures; these things are not found in "the house of his father, neither may they "come near his dwelling. But if we seek "Christ, we shall find him in the methods of "virtue, and the paths of God's command"ments; in the houses of prayer, and the "offices of religion; in the persons of the 66 poor, and the retirements of an afflicted "soul: we shall find him in holy reading and

pious meditation, in our penitential sor"rows, and in the time of trouble, in pulpits, "and upon altars, in the word, and in the "sacraments: if we come hither as we ought, "we are sure 'to find our Beloved,' him "whom our soul longeth after.

"Sure enough Christ is here, but he is not "here in every manner, and therefore is not "to be found by every inquirer, nor touched "by every hand, nor received by all comers, "nor entertained by every guest. He that "means to take the air, must not use his

fingers, but his mouth; and he that re"ceives Christ, must have a proper, that is, "a spiritual instrument, a purified heart, "consecrated lips, and a hallowed mouth, "a tongue that speaks no evil, and a hand "that ministers to no injustice, and to no un

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"cleanness: for a disproportionate instrument "is an indecency, and makes the effect im"possible both in nature and morality. Can "a man bind a thought with chains, or carry imaginations in the palm of his hand? Can "the beauty of the peacock's train, or the "ostrich plume, be delicious to the palate " and the throat? Does the hand intermeddle "with the joys of the heart? or darkness that "hides the naked, make him warm? Does "the body live, as does the spirit? or can the

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body of Christ be like to common food? "Indeed the sun shines upon the good and "bad; and the vines give wine to the drunk"ard, as well as to the sober man pirates "have fair winds, and a calm sea, at the same "time when the just and peaceful merchant "man hath them. But although the things "of this world are common to good and bad,

yet sacraments and spiritual joys, the food "of the soul, and the blessings of Christ, are "the peculiar right of saints; and the rites "of our religion are to be handled by the "measures of religion, and the things of God "by the rules of the spirit; and the sacra"ments are mysteries, and to be handled by "mystic persons, and to be received by saints; " and therefore whoever will partake of God's