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Rules to live above the world : while we are in it. The first part; being the childrens manual. Containing holy instructions & meditations for the forming the minds of children According to the true Christian Pattern. Compendiously deliver'd near three hundred years since, by the devout Thomas a Kempis. Now reformed for the use of schools. Together with the Alphabet of a Scholar in the School of Christ.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471.
Standardized Title:
Imitatio Christi. English. Selections.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Catechisms, English--Early works to 1800.
Catechisms, English.
Christian life--Early works to 1800.
Christian life.
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([22],xvi,[16],440p.,plates ) ill. ;
Place of Publication:
London : printed for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge's Head in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXVI. [1716]
Notes:
The traditional attribution to Thomas à Kempis is disputed.
A translation of: Imitatio Christi.
In four parts each with a separate titlepage; pagination and register are continuous.
Includes: 'A collection of several small pieces, both in prose and verse. .. ' also with a separate titlepage and with continuous pagination and register.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T199767.
OCLC:
642526752

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