Mud and Stone of This Earth

“But we have also seen that he [Taylor] was a Puritan after all, that like his fellow Puritans he practiced his religion through metaphoric poetry linking earth and heaven. Like them he saw God’s glory immanent in the world and the flesh, and he never presumed to ignore either or to abjure metaphor. Like them he strove in this life to obey the command in Exodus, to build God’s altar from the mud and stone of this earth” (Daly, p. 199).