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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christianus per Ignem. Or, A Disciple WARMING himself And OWNING hi… › Meditation 4: Meditation IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Meditation IV.
On the Mending of the Fire.
THE Fire in a little while I see falls into circumstances, that call upon the Company, Will some body please to mend the Fire? The Materials that supply the Fire with Fuel, are in a little while so wasted, that the Remainders of those Materials fall into Disorder; if the Fire be not mended, it will soon be ended; and if thing• be not quickly restored, and repaired into a better Order about the Fire, it will not be long, before none will be the better for it.
But when I see some body going to Mend the Fire, I think we that Sit by it, want mending much more than the Fire it self. That Call, Mend the Fire, is not of a millionth part ⟨p. 61⟩of so much importance, as that call, Jer. 7 3, 5. Amend your Ways and your Doings; and again, Throughly Amend your Ways and your Doings. I am sensible, [My God, make me more Sensible!] That there is very much Amiss in my Heart, and in my Life, much that wants to be mended. I have heard a great and a just cry made, for, A Reformation The method of obtaining a general Reformation, would be for every one, to mend one. A whole Army is presently Turned about, when every man in the Army Turns himself.