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The Chriftian's Pattern:

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 PERSONS.

By GEORGE STANHOPE, D. D. Dean of Canterbury, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

The Fifth Edition.

London: Printed by M. Roberts, for D. Brown, without Tem ple-Bar; R. Sare,in Holborn ; T. Bennet,in St. Paul's Churchyard; M.Wotton,in Fleet Street; B.Tooke,at the Middle-Temple gate in Fleetftreet; and B. Barker, in Weftminster-Hall, 1706,

T is not meerly from an Ambitim to make the moft publick Profeffion of my Gratitude, that I take the Confidence of prefenting Tou with this Book; but because I apprehend it, in a peculiar manner, fuitable to your Circumstances, and qualified for a favourable Acceptance. The conftant Strain of Piety, which animates the whole Compofition, will not fail to recommend it to so Ex-· cellent and Devout a Perfon: And the many moving Reflections upon Afflicted Virtue are so exactly calculated for thofe Tryals, which the Divine Providence always Wife and Good hath thought fit to exercife you with; that, as they passed under my Pen, they frequently brought You into my Thoughts: Tou, Madam, who have so great Occafion for, So 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 so powerful,that I A 24