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Hagio-mimesis The imitation of the saints
Hagio-mimesis The imitation of the saints : opened in some practical meditations upon the death of Mrs. Anne Browne, late wife of Mr. Peter Browne of Hammersmith / by Thomas Case ...
London: printed by A.M., 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3.1 Query. How must we imitate the Saints of God? Answer. Here again our Negative Rule meets us, (scil.) We are not to follow the Saints Universally; not all over. And the reason is, because, all that is in the Saints, is not Sanctity. All that is in the Godly, is not Godliness. Saints have their infirmities, and in them they are not to be imitated.
3.1 Querie. How must we imitate the Saints of God? Answer. Here again our Negative Rule meets us, (scil.) We are not to follow the Saints Universally; not all over. And the reason is, because, all that is in the Saints, is not Sanctity. All that is in the Godly, is not Godliness. Saints have their infirmities, and in them they are not to be imitated.
- 13 Qu. How we must imitate the Saints
The best of men, are but men at the best. Affirmatively, Therefore our imitation of the Saints it must be but,
11. A limited Imitation. And that Limitation, one of the best of men (that were but men) the great Apostle hath given us in his own Person:2 Be ye followers of me, (How?) as I am of Christ. If we find holy Paul, not following Christ, he doth not require us to follow him. It was Jehoshaphat's honour that he made choice of the first ways of David to walk in. Indeed we have these intermediate Copies written for our learning: God therein condescending