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OR, A

TREATISE

OF THE

IMITATION

OF

Jefus Chrift.

In FOUR BOOKS.

Written Originally in LATIN by THOMAS à KEMPIS.

Now Render'd into ENGLISH.
To which are added,

Meditations and Payers

For SICK PERSON S.

By GEORGE STANHOPE, D. D. Dean of Canterbury, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY.

The Twelfth Edition.

LONDON:

Printed by 7. Ilive; for J.J. and P.Knapton, R.Knaplock, D. Midwinter, B. Sprint, W. Innys and R. Manby, J. Osborn and T. Longman, R. Robinfon, B. Barker, J. Hazard, T. Wotton, B. Motte, D. Brown and R. Williamfon. 1733.

MADAM,

I

T is not merely from an Ambition to make the moft publick Profeffion of my Gratitude, that I take the Confidence of presenting You with

this Book; but because I apprehend it, in a peculiar manner, fuitable to your Circumftances, and qualified for a favourable Acceptance. The conftant Strain of Piety, which animates the whole Compofition, will not fail to recommend it to jo Excellent and Devout a Perfon: And the many moving Reflections upon Afflicted Virtue are fo exactly calculated for thoje Tryals, which the Divine Providence (always Wife and Good) bath thought fit to exercife you with; that, as they paffed under my Pen, they frequently brought you into my Thoughts: You, Madam, who have jo great Occafion for, fo just a Title to, thofe true Comforts adminiftred here. For indeed the only true Comforts in Trouble, are fuch as Religion fupplies Men with. And thofe (Madam) are fo powerful, that

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