The Christian's Pattern: or, the Imitation of Jesus Christ. Written Originally in Latin by Thomas à Kempis. Now Rendered into English. To which are added, Meditations and Prayers for Sick Persons. By George Stanhope ... A New edition

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Charlestown, [Mass.]: Printed by W.S. & H. Spear, for Asa Lyman, Bookseller, Portland, 1812. 8vo. [iv], 315; [3], 42pp. Contemporary tree calf, red leather spine label; covers with a few nicks and scrapes, some very light waterstaining, otherwise a very handsome copy, with the contemporary ownership inscription of "Rufus Horton, Jun. Portland". American Imprints 25712; not in Parsons . A very handsome copy of this piece of Catholic Americana, which first appeared in the Uhited States in English in 1729, in abridged form. "The Christian Pattern" was the title used both by John Wesley in 1735 and by George Stanhope, dean of Canterbury in 1698 for their versions of "Imitatio Christi." "It has been the most widely read devotional manual apart from the Bible, perhaps even surpassing the influence of such books as 'Pilgrim's Progress' and St. Augustine's 'Confessiones. Much of this appeal has been attributed to the great simplicity of its style and its freedom from intellectualism or theological dogmatism." (PMM)

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