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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.
But to be sure they stand not in the holy Register, as Patterns and encouragements to sin. They are our Take-heeds, not our Warrants; they tell us, here is a Rock, avoid ⟨p. 19⟩it; here is a Quick-sand, come not near it, lest you suffer shipwreck. We are not to imitate the best in their worst.
But to be sure they stand not in the holy Register, as Patterns and encouragements to sin. They are our Take-heeds, not our Warrants; they tell us, here is a Rock, avoid ⟨p. 19⟩it; here is a Quick-sand, come not near it, lest you suffer shipwrack. We are not to imitate the best in their worst.
12. They are not be imitated in what they did by immediate and miraculous assistance of the Holy Ghost.
- 12. Not in what they did by miraculous inspiration.
As we are commanded to be followers of God as dear Children, but not in the creating of the world; not in causing the Sun to rise, and the Rain to fall, &c. that is, we must not attempt such an imitation of our heavenly Father, as being above the Sphere of the creature, the Prerogative only of the great God.