rJf!VIr. I-Ienry Scouga1: 377-- I .His iinage; and hehath toldus,.tharwi'thoutr' this' we-ihall never· fee the face of God~ . We'have therefore aH the· obHgat.ioas- in>· d1e world to:tnak'e Chrifl: our lifeJ.and' to ;· fullow JejJts.~.. This is the only mark an cL oharacrcli -whereby God will own and"ae-- - I knowledge us-: .for. his'•· It -is, befides; our~· greatefl:' glory and · honour, to· imitate. fo bleifed an exa1nple, and a wondGrful ' ex-· prdlio~ of goodhefs and - condekenGonr fur the. Son of God to come down fi·orn . heaven to give-~ us this pattern~ He is the · .n1ofl: perfe~· example of purity ·and ho!"'-~ , nefs, in -whom there was no fpet nor ble-· miili, who had no un, neither -vvas guiJe found ii1 his· 1nout:h; but.. his life was· uni... form, and always pure, and" conflant to himfelf. And:yet · he hath given us·. the· 1noft plain and fam~liar copy, and the tnoft exaCtly fitted ~; to the fiate and condit:iorr of n1en in this world. ,He did not retire into c.ells and cloifl:ers, as if none.cou}d. \Vafk aS" he walked but monk's- and n:clufes..; but he · conve.t;fed freely in ·the wot)d, and lived in cities and villages, in company and converfe with others. I:Ii$ piety did not break forth ii1to fevere Edlh1g, and an .. e:xoefs·of other-– bodily aufterities, in ~cftatick>raptu'res and[ ,, eoth.ufiafrick fits; . fuch as _th~ lives of the 1:-.i ., 2 \ famed ·· \ ~-~ I J
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