Thomas a Kempis

Quoting Cindy Aalders (Cindy Aalders, “Writing Religious Communities: The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of English Women, 1740–90,” D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 2014, 155.) Bruce Hindmarsh says

The Baptist hymn writer Anne Steele described her godly stepmother as “the christian’s pattern,” quoting, unmistakably, the common English title of the Imitation.

(The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World, 88)