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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 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.
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.
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 Wayes and your Doings; and again, Throughly Amend your Wayes 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 Turn'd about, when every man in the Army Turns himself.