The Christian Pattern Or the Imitation of Jesus Christ volume
The Christian Pattern Or the Imitation of Jesus Christ volume
Kempis Thomas
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Very fain would I tarry with my Beloved Lord, let him deal with me as it pleafeth him. For if I have done amifs, lo ; He is ready to forgive •, and if I have done well, he is ready to reward the Work of his own Grace in his Servant. O Beloved Jefu, vouch fa fe me this Favour, becaufe I am nothing. Well may 1 complain of my Cdf^ and greatly bewail and lament my fclf *, becaufe when I - rightly 3 ^ M tl)e 31mttatton Vol. Il rightly refled and corifider, I my felf alone am all that which hindreth ...and weigheth me down. 1 confefs therefore to God that it is my own, yea my own Fault: I acknowledge before him my daily Deviations, even after his Grace who had laid hold on me, and the Cords of his Love had drawn me. O that my gracious Father would now caft a merciful Eye upon my f mprifonment and my Thraldom, as at the beginning ! That he would fo lighten all the ob- fcure Places of my Heart, as that I might difcern at all times the Path in which I am to walk ! Lord my God, moft gracious and holy, what will become of me in the end ^ feeing 1 make no grea- er Advancement in my fpi ritual Race, after all the Afllftances of thy Grace, which 1 have moft freely re- ceived from thee, and all the Attradiions of thy Holy Spirit, which I daily feel?
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