A35574:51
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.
Why now, if we mind them not, and care not to imitate them, we sin against the design of the Scripture, and bid God (as it were) keep his Copies to himself, we need them not; or we desire not to f•llow them.
VVhy now, if we mind them not, and care not to imitate them, we sin against the design of the Scripture, and bid God (as it were) keep his Copies to himself, we need them not; or we desire not to f•llow them.
13. Reason. To be followers of the Saints is a marvellous help and furtherance in our work. His work is half done that hath a president before him; the precept possibly may be dark and obscure; but precept exemplified into a pattern and example, is plain and facile; he that runs may read.
13. Reason. To be followers of the Saints is a marvelous help and furtherance in our work. His work is half done that hath a president before him; the precept possibly may be dark and obscure; but precept exemplified into a pattern and example, is plain and facile; he that runs may read.
- 13. Reason. Patterns make any work more easy.3. Reason. Patterns make any worke more easie.
Patterns are the commands of God made legible in the lives of the Saints: Holiness made exemplary, by which we may see how the Saints believed, how the Saints denied themselves, how they loved God, and how they contemned the world, &c.