Excerpt from The Christian Pattern, or the Imitation of Jesus Christ, Vol. 2: Being the Genuine Works of Thomas À Kempis; Containing Four Books, Viz;, I. The Sighs of Penitent Soul, II. A Short Christian Directory, III. Of Spiritual Exercises, IV. Of Spiritual Entertainments Vern themfelves chiefly by, the Maxims and Rules of St. Align/fin in his Tract, entitled, regula' nd servos dei, whereof the firl't Rule of twelve is Do Clonritnt'e Dei, fitproximi, of the Love of God and the Brethren, and fo far I may fay, it would be happy for the Chriltian World, were all Monafieries both of Men and. Women, truly reform'd according to thofe Rules. You'll alfo find in the Account of his Life as much faid of his Works as could be, with any Certainty; for his great Humility would not permit him to let his Name, as an Ant/oar, to any of them. There alfo you'll meet with a Summary of all the Claims and Pleas that have been made for o thors to entitle them to his Works, and their feveral Advocates, particularly of the Contefis between two orders in the Roman Church for the Honour of one Piece, that hath generally been afcribed to him, together with fome Pre fumptions, which make it probable, that the firfi: Penman of a great part of the firft Volume was our Countryman, and that the whole was after wards compiled and digefied, as it is, by the Care and Indufiry of this illuftrious Devotee; of the Place of whofe Nativity there hath been alfo fome Difpute, both Utrecht and Cologne ha Ving contended for that Honour, as the Grecian Cities did for the Birth-place of Homer, and as Rotero'mn and Gondn both fiill pretend to have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.