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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 9: Meditation IX.
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.
FOR what is my Fire Enkindled and Maintained? It is that I, with my Friends may be cherished with a Warmth from hence conveyed unto us. And actually finding the Fire to warm those that are about it, I find my Heart hereupon warmed in an agreeable Meditation and Resolution.
FOR what is my Fire Enkindled and Maintained? It is that I, with my Friends may be cherished with a Warmth from hence conveyed unto us. And actually finding the Fire to warm those that are about it, I find my Heart hereupon warm'd in an agreeable Meditation and Resolution.
By Religious Conference, a Christian becomes like a Fire to warm those that are about him; he is herein, as 'twas said concerning one of the Ancients, [Greek or Hebrew]. One great Reason, of the strange Cold upon Christianity among us, is, the Indisposition to Religious Conference, among the Professors of it; and that Cold Reciprocally becomes a Reason of this Indisposition. When we come together, we are sufficiently free in our Discourses upon any Trifles whatsoever; and it is well if they don't proceed unto Censures and Slanders of the Absent: But if any man let fall a word of Christ, and Grace, and Heaven, and the Exercises, or, the Temptations of Experimental Christianity, the silent Company seem astonished, as at a man of a strange Language. Alas, If Good men, when they come together, would modestly, seriously, prudently employ ⟨p. 85⟩more of their Discourses oil the Grand Affairs of powerful and practical Christianity, they would be able to give a better Account unto the Lord Jesus Christ, if He should suddenly demand, What manner of Communications have you? When we are Speaking one to another, 'tis certain, The Lord hearkens and hears: and it was a significant Action of an Holy Young man, who being in the Company of some Christians, that managed their Discourses very Impertinently, he •••observed wrote their words down in Short hand, and then reading the same over to them, said, Would you be willing to have such poor Talk as this, Entered in the Book of Gods Remembrance? Oh! That Christians would more endeavour those Gracious and Savoury Discourses, which would render them like the primitive Saints, of whom it was said, It a faulantur, ut qui Sciant Dominum audire: and which would warm all that are about them into a more lively sense of Religion.