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ST. Hierome having read the life and death of Hilarion (one that lived most Christianly,* 1.1 and dyed most comfortably) folded up the book, saying; Well, Hilarion shall be the Champion that I will follow, his good life shall be my Example,
and his godly death my President. How much more then should each of us first read with diligence the life and death of Iesus Christ, and then propound him to our selves, as the most absolute pattern for our Imitation, resolving by the Grace of God, that Christ shall be the copy after which we will write, the pattern which we will follow in all things that he hath left within the sphear of our Activity;* 1.2 so also in that necessary duty of Preparation for death; He did so, Iob. 14. and we must do so; For as in shooting, there is a deliberate draught of the bow, a good aym taken before the loose be given; so if ever we look for comfort in death, we must look at death through the preparation for it.
Hieron. Gua∣dalupense in vita.
Dan. Price Sermon at Chr. Church, Lond. 1619.