The Imitation of Christ - In Three Books; Rendered Into English From the Original Latin #270531

With the same desire to divest this invaluable treatise of its im proprieties, wesley translated and greatly abridged it. But he not only omitted much matter as unexceptionable and valuable as that which he retained, but by dividing the whole into separate sentences or paragraphs, like proverbs, utterly destroyed the connection and beauty of the work, and of course greatly impaired the interest of the reader. Notwithstanding these serious bbjections, the book has been useful, and in some degree popular, particularly among Mr.