John Payne 
Imitation of Christ 
In Three Books; Rendered Into English From the Original Latin

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.