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Christianus per ignem. Or, A disciple warming of himself and owning of his Lord:…
Christianus per ignem. Or, A disciple warming of himself and owning of his Lord: with devout and useful meditations, fetched out of the fire, by a Christian in a cold season, sitting before it. A work though never out of season, yet more particularly, designed for the seasonable and profitable entertainment, of them that would well employ their leisure [sic] by the fire-side. : [Three lines in Latin from Alsted]Christianus per ignem. Or, A disciple warming of himself and owning of his Lord: with devout and useful meditations, fetch'd out of the fire, by a Christian in a cold season, sitting before it. A work though never out of season, yet more particularly, designed for the seasonable and profitable entertainment, of them that would well employ their liesure [sic] by the fire-side. : [Three lines in Latin from Alsted]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1702
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Christianus per Ignem. Or, A Disciple WARMING himself And OWNING hi… › Meditation 3: Meditation III
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Meditation III
On the Light cast by the Fire upon the Objects about it.
ALL the Objects here capable of having direct Rays from the Fire shot upon them, how Lightsome are they? All clothed with Garments of Light! The side of the Chimney, the Wall of the Chamber, the Iron Back, the Brazen Tongs, and their Fellow-Servants, are now distinguished, with an agreeable Brightness. They entertain the Beams of Light, which the Fire darts upon them, and by entertaining ⟨p. 54⟩thereof, they have a particular Brightness, and Beauty upon them.
When I see the Reflection of the Light, on the Objects about the Fire, methinks, I am furnished with Light enough, to make a Reflection of my own upon it. This Light leads me unto that Glory, that shall be Enjoyed by the Saints in the Heavenly World; and unto the very Fountain of all their Glory. If unto the Fire, I should Resemble the Glorious Lord JESUS CHRIST, who shall one day appear in Flaming Fire, the Resemblance, might with many Good Thoughts be prosecuted. It is enough, that our Lord, the Sun of Righteousness, is compared unto the Sun, which is an Ocean of Fire; and that Celestial and Wonderful Fire ball, corresponding with the little Flashes on my Hearth, in the property of Luminosity, the comparison that is now to be made, will be sufficiently vindicated. Nor will it be unserviceable unto this purpose, to remark, that in some Languages (particularly the Syriac and Chaldee) the same word that is used for Fire, is used also for Light. The Splendour of my Fire, tho' so sparkling and so dazzling, that the most lively Limner can't paint it out unto the Life, is but a black Shadow, of the Glory which the Disciples in the Holy Mountain, saw resting on the Transfigured Lord of Glory. One of them that saw it, has reported unto us. That it was a Majesty