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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

theirs as Gods That 's not Rebellion against Rulers and Superiours vvherein not the will so much of the Inferiour gives sin a Negative vote as the Conscience and Conscience rightly informed by the word of God Yoke-fellows Love ye one another souls Love one another to heaven Let not the flesh go away with all your time and strength and affections nor the elder serve the younger Live together as heirs of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3.7 3. Look upon her as a Mistris in her Family 3. A Governess She was an excellent Governess her government was o● a Scripture constitution It was made up of sweetness and gravity sweetness without levity or remisness gravity without bitterness and severity There was no severity in her discipline save what was in the Pattern she proposed to them her own Conversation Indeed she was severely good her government was made up of Intreaties rather then Commands or Repro●f● She knew not how to be angry unless it were against sin and even that she exprest rather in grief then in passion Her great Care was that her family might know God and Jesus Christ Joh. 17.3 whom to know his life eternal She was of a Joshuah-like resolution Jos 24.13 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. 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 Her exactness in family-duties sc Reading the Scripture Prayer Catechising as deeply sensible how gainfull God had made that Domestick 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 sence and meaning and by impressing upon conscience what was imprinted in their memeries In the absence of her dear Husband she constantly performed the duty of prayer in her own person save only when she could call in the assistance of her own pious Pastour or other faithful Ministers whom the present Providence had cast into her neighbourhood all which her Christian obliging converse had so marvellously endeared that she had as many Chaplains as if she had bin one of the greatest Ladies in the Land A true Gospel-Sabbatarian she was and thought it no Judaism to keep the Christian Sabbath as an holy Rest rather envying her body that it should have six dayes to her souls one then sacrilegiously filching out of that precious one any parcells of time for the uses and purposes of the flesh truth is she counted every moment of Sabbath-time too good for any time but Sabbath-work unless it were vvhere divine indulgence had made allowance for vvorks of Mercy and Necessity In reference to both vvhich notvvithstanding she vvell knevv how to spiritualize even them also into Sabbath-exercises Further then these two she durst not exact any of her servants labour As knovving 1. That the Sabbath vvas the servants priviledge as vvell as her ovvn Thou and thy servant c. 2. That her Servants souls were as precious to God as her own and cost Jesus Christ as much blood to redeem Therefore she vvas careful that every one in her Family should not only attend the publick Ordinances but that they should improve the whole overplus of Sabbath time in the holy exercises of Religion And as God had given her an excellent faculty in taking Sermons so she made it her vvork constantly to repeat both the former and latter Sermon to her Family vvhich she did vvith such a judicious accurateness that the hearer could hardly miss in the repetition vvhat he had heard from the Pulpit at least not any head or material enlargment of the Sermon The other void spaces of the day she commended to her Family as Gods and their own time for divine uses calling upon them to redeem it accordingly You that are Governours of Families imitate this blessed Saint herein also The Sabbath is exceedingly fallen amongst us not in our Publike Assemblies streets only but even vvithin our private vvalls The spirit of Ignatius dyed with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let every one that loves the Lord sanctify the Lords-day Ignat. ep ad Magn. Hovv art thou fallen Thou Morning-Starr Thou Queen of days thou golden spot of the week Thou Map of Heaven Thou birth-day of immortality Hovv art thou fallen You that love the Lord Jesus and his Resurrection I charge you by all that right and interest you claim in either help to lift up the head of this glorious day of Jehovah for the love of God do not put avvay the Pillovv from under the head of this dying day as you vvould not be found guilty of the blood of Christ and of his Resurrection Christians stirr up your selves for the recovery of the life and honour of this Holy-day 4. As a Friend and Neighbour 4. As a Friend She vvas of a most sweet and obliging converse As many loved her as knew her as ambitious she vvas to do good offices to the poorest as others are to those that can requite them But that vvhich vvas eminent in her converse vvas her profitable improvement of it she was not one of those professors that with the holy could shew her self holy and with the prophane could shew her self prophane that could talk religiously in one company and vainely and frothily with others She was not one of them that could shape themselves into any form and garb of the present Company but she was gracious and uniform in every Company which providence cast her upon spending the time in Christian and profitable Communication alwayes either doing good or receiving good as opportunity served But if the Company were such as admitted neither her silence should argue her dissent and her withdrawment as far as might consist with civility should at once ease ●hem and her self of a burden Christians Oh that every one would herein become her followers Oh what a deal of pretious time is wasted in idle alk and foolish jestings which are not convenient how many precious hours are pent in vain and unprofitable complehents Yea in carnal mirth foolish talk●g and jesting which might be improved to spiritual soul-edifying conferences as if Christians had forgotten there were such a word in the Bible Let your speech be alwayes with gr●ce seasoned with salt Col. 4.6 or that other Redeem the time for the dayes are evil Eph. 5.1 15 16. The Lord make you wise to salvation I might easily enlarge in these her Relative excellencies but I must

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