Sheffield.
_The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books_ (Vol. iv., p. 3.).--The paragraph
quoted by SIR F. MADDEN out of _Prayers after the confession of sins,
and the sense of pardon obtained_, and well called by him "striking," is
a _verbatim_ copy of a passage in "A Guide for the Penitent," published
at the end of Jeremy Taylor's _Golden Grove_.
The short preface, by a nameless hand, which precedes this division of
the _Golden Grove_, would lead one to suppose that "A Guide for the
Penitent" was a posthumous work of Jeremy Taylor; but this is not
exactly stated. The prayers, however, have the same spirit and grandeur
of piety which characterise those which are the acknowledged
compositions of Bishop Taylor. Monmouth was beheaded eighteen years
after Taylor died. It would be interesting to identify the author of "A
Guide for the Penitent" (should there be any doubt on the subject):
also, to ascertain how far Monmouth _quoted_, in his "prayers," from
Taylor or any other divine.