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Title: The Christian pattern : or, the Imitation of Jesus Christ ...
Year: 1710 (1710s)
Authors: Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471 Hickes, George, 1642-1715
Subjects: Meditations -- Early works to 1800 Christian life -- Early works to 1800
Publisher: London : Printed for John Nicholson, Robet Knaplock and Jonah Bowyer
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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refent Life, than referve my Evils for the Judgment tocome. O God, moft Gracious, moft Pitiful, moft Clcmentyhave mercy upon me, an unworthy Sinner, who for ^^y^^^of Sinners and the Vnrighteous, came ft into the World, andgaveft thy felf a Ranfomfor the ZKorft of Sinners, even forme. Help me therefore, O God my Savtenr, and f<^^ ^^Glory of thy Name deliver me\ Amen* ^* 4° Of tl^e Simttation Vol.li. OF THE IMITATION O F Jefus Chrift. Ci^e ^econD 25ooft* A Ihort Chriftian Directory: Digcfted into Conferences betwixt an OldChriftian and a Novice, or the Mafterand the Difciple. Chap. I.Of feehng Good andPninning Evil Company. The Mafter. - He that zvalketh z^ith the Wife (hall he Wife : But a Com-f anion of Fools jlj all be defiroyed^ (or broken) Prov. xiii. I. 4 Ttend with diligence, Beloved in Chrift,and take good heed continually, left thoube feduced by Vicious, Diflblute, or Care-lefs Company. Converfe with fuch as are yir^uous and Learned ^ and with them that keep good I Orders A
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^dook ua^ C( mil ens ifapicnj (Ja/.^c/ihcj^ crit Book II. of Jesus Christ. 41 Orders and Difcipliiie make thy felf familiar : Sincewith the Holy thou (halt learn to be Holy\ but withthe Perverfe thou (halt learn Perverfenefs. More par-ticularly therefore accompany thy felf with, and cleaveclofe to fome one Perfon, of well approved Piety andExperience, that is, a ftrid Obferver of Rules, yetnot afFeding to be thought fo^ from whom thoumayft always hear fome good Difcourfe, fuch as maybe both Comfortable and Edifying, and at once de-lightful to the Ear, and worthy thy Imitation. Foreven as a dead Coal by touching of Fire becomesthereby Hot and Burning *, ^o a Lukewarm Chriftianin like manner aflbciating himfelf with one that isFervent and Devout, catches fire, and becomes hini-lelf Fervent and Devout too j and is greatly both in-ftruded and regulated. 2, The Apoflles, by adhering to Chrifl, were madeHoly Men, and filled with the Holy Ghoft. St. Mark^joining himfelf with St. Feter^ was m

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