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A35574 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 ... Case, Thomas, 1598-1682. 1666 (1666) Wing C822; ESTC R37528 40,369 103

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hasten In the second place take a view of her in her Personal Capacity And there we shall find these six Graces which were eminently in her to the observation of all that know her sc Holiness Meekness Love Sympathy with the afflicted people of God Faith Patience 1. Her Holiness she was a Christian of a most unstained Holiness she wore the garment of her Christian profession without any visible spot The commo● Holiness of the world would not serve he●turn Modesty Civility Moral-righteousness an Inoffensive Conversation these go far amongh the commonsort of professors and I wish many that would pa●● for Saints did not fall short of these Though it is a very sad thing to fall she●● of them that fall short of Heaven unsess your Righteousness exceed this Ri●hieousness you cannot enter c. Mat. 5.20 Blessed be God the Righteousness of this precious servant of Christ was of another make a purity she contended after of a peculiar strain zealous of good works an Holiness that containeth all those excellencies which God sets any store by Tit. 2.14 1 Pet. 2.9 an Holiness conversant about the whole will of God proving what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God Rom. 12.2 She made Religion her business Her one onely necessary thing She pursued an Holiness that comes up to its Pattern the Pattern in the Mount As he that called you is Holy 1 Pet. 1.14 15. Mat. 5.6 so be you Holy in all manner of conversation and again Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect She was in all things as becometh women professing the Gospel adorned with good works 1 Tim. 2.10 And to this end with the Holy Apostle She forgot the things that were behind and pressed toward the Mark for the prize of the High-calling of God in Christ Jesus Let the same mind be in you my beloved that was in this handmaid of Jesus Christ and do ye follow her as she followed the blessed Apostle A Second grace wherein she did excell and indeed excell was the grace of Meekness Num. 12.3 she was of a Moses-like spirit meek to a None-such She was rarely angry never in her own Cause and when in Gods she exprest it in grief rather then in passion sin could provoke her zeal but not transport her into any undecent excess In her own concerns she had that absolute dominion over her own spirit that as she knew not how to give offence so she could not easily take any or if any at any time were worth taking it was sooner forgot then acknowledged she was of so serene a temper that an angry word was hardly ever heard from her lips or an angry look ever seen in her face 1 Pet. 3.4 Oh how aimable did the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit render her in the eyes of God and Man She was a rich Cabinet of heavenly Jewels but she knew it not She was of as mean esteem in her own eye● as she was honourable in the eyes of all beholders Taliter pigmentatae Deum habebitis Amatorem Tert. de cul faem You that are of her Sex and Relation Oh that you would strive to imitate her in this grace also beautified with this Complexion God and Angels and men cannot chuse but be in love with you 3. The Grace of Love was transcendently in her 1. Her Love to God she loved him exceedingly whom she couldnot love excessively 2. Her Love to Jesus Christ who had loved her so passionately that he died for love of her Rev. 1.6 and washed her from her sins in his own blood But because he loves Christ too little Minus to amat Domine qui aliquid amat quod nonpropter te amat Aug. Psa 45.2 Cant. 3. Cant. 5.10 that loveth him for any thing but for himself This precious Christian loved Him not only for what he did but for what he was His Person as well as his Portion She loved him for his Loveliness as well as for his Love she looked upon Christ with the Spouses eyes fairer then the Children of men c. The chiefest of ten Thousand The only precious one of her Soul Her love to Christ had marvelously consumed her love to the World She was in a great degree with the Holy Apostle Crucified to the world and the world to her God had given a competent portion of the world to her but she blessed be God made it not her portion She gave but very little of her Love to the vvorld but possest the vvorld as if she possest it not In this only she vvas holily proud that she thought her love too good for the world Her love to Christ had vvonderfully vvasted and vveakned Self-love Self vvas a very small concern to her None had less interest in her self then her self 3. Her Love to the Publick Assemblies and Publick Ordinances Her word was that of Holy David Lord I have loved the habitation of thy House Psa 26.8 and the place where thine honour dwelleth 4. Love to the Saints All her delight was in them that excel in vertue A vile person was contemned in her eyes Psal 16.2.3 15.4 but she honoured them that fear the Lord. She chose not her Company by their greatness but by their goodness a poor Saint was a more welcome guest to her then a proud sinner she loved Saints for their Sanctity the more holy the more her heart was knit unto them 5. Her love to the faithful Ministers of the Gospel was very eminent the very feet of them that bring good tidings that publish p●ac● that bring good tidings of good that publish salvation were very beautiful in her eyes their Persons and Converse was honourable to her above many A fourth eminent was Sympathy with the afflicted Churches and servants of Jesus Christ In all their afflictions she was afflicted her bowels were troubled for them Yea she was in pain like a woman in travel who was weak and she was not weak who was afflicted and she burnt not she was read in that Chapter of Remembrance as one calls it Heb. 13.3 She remembred them that are in bonds as bound with them and them who suffer adversity as her self also in the made body Surely this fellow-feeling with the afflicted people of God was not more her duty then her Character she was a Christian up of bowels It is verily thought the Churches sickness was her death Queen Mary said upon her death-bed that if they opened her when she was dead they would find Calais written upon her heart If this precious Creature had been opened when she was dead you might have found Sion written upon her heart So true a Mourner she was in Sion and for Sion that she even mourned her self to death Oh imitate her in this grace all ye that love the Lord Jesus Behold she whom your Lord loveth is sick sick not of Love only but of persecution