"Grace does not give us new faculties, and create another nature": Jeremy Taylor against the Weird

There has not been an 'against the Weird' post on laudable Practice for some months, so it is perhaps a good time to return to the theme (see the original post which introduced this occasional series).  A key theme has been heeding how Laudian and Old High Church sources provide a critique of the "radical rejection" and acceptance of cultural marginalisation advocated by proponents of counter-cultural 'Weird Christianity'.  

Below, Jeremy Taylor in An Apology for the Liturgy (1649) powerfully rehearses the core of the Laudian and Old High Church refutation of appeals to the 'Weird', expounding the implications of the dictum that 'grace does not destroy nature'.  It is through ordinary habits, means, and actions - not the mystery cult - that we are ordered to our supernatural end:

For it is a rule of the School, and there is much reason in it, Habitus infusi infunduntur per modum acquisitorum, whatsoever is infused into us is in the same manner infused as other things are acquired, that is, step by step, by human means and co-operation, and grace does not give us new faculties, and create another nature, but meliorates and improves our own. And therefore what the Greeks called habits, the Christians used to call gifts, because we derive assistances from above to heighten the habits, and facilitate the actions, in order to a more noble and supernatural end. And what Saint Paul said in the Resurrection, is also true in this Question, That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and then that which is spiritual. The graces and gifts of the Spirit are postnate, and are additions to art and nature. God directs our counsels, opens our understandings, regulates our will, orders our affections, supplies us with objects and arguments, and opportunities, and revelations in scriptis, and then most when we most employ our own endeavours, God loving to bless all the means, and instruments of his service, whether they be natural, or exquisite.