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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

wo●●● not want one hour of the Communion with●● innumerable company of Angels the general ●●sembly of the first born which are written 〈◊〉 heaven Heb. 12.22 23 24. and with God the Judge of all 〈◊〉 with the spirits of just men made perfect 〈◊〉 with Jesus the Mediator of the new Covena●● I say she would not want one houres Com●●nion in Heaven which she now possesseth 〈◊〉 a thousand of the best daies that ever she sp●●● with us in the Land of the living And lastly This continual beholding 〈◊〉 example will dry up the stream of our sorro● while thereby we shall in Gods way se●● to our selves a future fellowship with her glory God hath linked Grace and Gl●●● together by an unseparable connexion that if we carefully mark every step of Saints holy feet of which they have left any print and endeavour to tread exactly in them It will infallibly bring us to their glory what God hath joyned together all the Powers of darkness shall never be able to put asunder Here is work Christians in finitely to bear its own charges and compensate your labour with unspeakable reward A fifth Motive 5. Motive The greatest honour we can do her Ea demum est vera religio imitari quem colis Lactant. An exact imitation of her eminent graces is the greatest honour we can lawfully put upon her As it is our tru●st worshipping of God to labour to be like him so to imitate our gracious friends is the highest veneration they are capable of should we bring Oxen and Garlands to do sacrifice unto her as Jupiters Priests would have done to Barnabas and Paul Act. 14.13 Or should we pray unto her and worship her as the Papists do to their Saints and Images we pay her an honour not due which would be a fruitless piece of Idolatry as to her Sacrilegious as to God and pernicious as to our own souls Whereas conscientiously to insist in her steps and to set her up as a pattern for our religious imitation 6. Motive The greatest expression of our thankfulness to God will be a laudable Testimony before men that she was highly honourable in our eyes and a sacrifice wherewith God is well pleased And this hints A Sixth Motive Carefully to follow her pious example is the best thankfulness we can render to God for her Two things are to be done if we would be thankful The first is to see God in those graces and qualifications wherewith she was beautified To commend her for her holiness meekness love to God and his Saints fellow-feeling with Gods suffering people her faith patience her wisdom temperance prudence mercy c. and no more were to magnifie Her but to neglect God as if she had made her self to differ or had shined by vertue of a self-born light She was thus and thus I but who made her so Here 's our thankfulness to acknowledge God the fountain whence all these streams of perfection did emanare and issue forth So it was with those they returned glorifying of God who had given such gifts unto men This is right to see God and to admire God in the gifts and graces of his servants to look upon all the excellencies of the Saints as so many Reflections of the divine nature in them To overlook God in the graces of the Saints is pride and ingratitude but to deny God were Atheism And as often as we call to mind the graces of our dear friend or friends let us contemplate and admire the infinite fulness that is in Jesus Christ of whose fulness they received and grace for grace and yet in comparison of whom her brightness was but darkness and her perfections pardon the word but small sparks of that ●un of Righteousness but little drops of that ●mmense Ocean of divine fulness that dwells in Him The second expression and testimony of our ●hankfulness after our owning of God and a●cribing all the glory to God I say the second ●hing is To write after her Copy to imi●ate those virtues for which we would be ●hankful while we labour to be like her we do ●eally bless God in expressing the true end and design of divine Grace in leaving such a piece of heaven so long in our Custody improvement of mercies is our best thankfulness for mercies while we do indeed make use of such living Directories for our better glorifying of God we do offer him praise and ordering our conversations aright we shall in the end see the salvation of God A Seventh Motive 7. Motive Hereby we shall entail Religion upon our Family A severe and constant imitation of her worthy example will be a blessed expedient of entailing Religion upon our family while each surviving Relation Oh that it might be out honour shall really endeavour in our persons to derive down a pr●ctical memorial of her Piety we shall keep Religion alive in the Family and teach our posterity how to glorifie God Although Saints do not propagate Saints by natural Generation yet may even the barren womb and dry l●ynes thus propagate Saints b● spir●●●● Imitation of the holy lives of them tha● have gone before us Thus the Fathers to the Children may make know● Gods truth Isa 3● 19 The Grandmother Lois to the Mother Eunice and the Mother Eunice to her Son Timothy 2 Tim. 1.5 propagate the Faith Certainly holiness may be transferred by Pattern as well as by Precept from one generation to ●nother and it is not education will do it with●●● example the eye is the more creditable Inf●●●●● then the ear Teach we our Children and E●●●●● so that they may see us If our practice c●●●●dict our ●●●●epts we bid them as it were 〈◊〉 ●●lieve ●s and take the next course to make th●● Atheists Let us labour by both to leave an 〈◊〉 Seed in our Families of whom we may comfortably say when we come to die as our Lord 〈◊〉 upon the Cross My seed shall serve him it shall b● counted to the Lord for a Generation Ps 22.30 Eighthly and Lastly By this means throu●● divine Grace We shall provide for Death 〈◊〉 Comfort As in reference to our dear Relation who is gone before us Her Graces and graciou● life testifieth comfortably concerning Her th●● she is blessed in her death Heb. 1● 23 she dyed in the Faith So our sincere and vigorous imitation of those graces will bear a Comfortable Death-Bed Testimony of our future blessedness also Conformity to her in Grace will by Scripture warrant conclude a future Conformity to her in Glory w● being followers of her in Faith and Patience as she was a follower of Abraham and other Believer in their several generations we shall together with them and her Vid. Motive 4.3 Branch inherit the promis●● But this hath bin already hinted and therefor● we shall insist on it no further Soli Deo Gloris FINIS