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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.
She thought it not enough to go to heaven alone, but laboured to carry as many as she could with her, especially them of her own Family.
To that end she was very exact and constant in Family-duties, 1(sc.) Reading the Scripture, Prayer, Catechising, as deeply sensible how gainful God had made that Domestic duty to her own soul in the Family of her education: I say, being conscious what good she had got by being diligently instructed in the principles of Religion, she was conscientious in the discharge of that duty towards those whom God had committed to her trust, not only in a way of exercising their memories in a bare verbal repetition of words, but (according to her faculty, which verily was not ordinary in her sex) in a way of helping them to understand the sense and meaning; and by impressing upon conscience ⟨p. 46⟩what was imprinted in their memories.