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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 10: Meditation X.
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 X.
On Green Wood in the Fire.
Observing a Stick of Green Wood laid on the Fire, I thought on those words of our Lord, Luk. 23. 31. If they do these things in a Green Tree, what shall be done in the Dry? And I took the Gloss of the Blessed Old Theophylact upon it: If the Romans may do such things to me, that am a Tree full of Sap, and Fruit, what shall not they do to you, that are a people destitute of both: If you had any Good in you, you might have been spared: but now you are [Greek or Hebrew], As a Dry Tree, fit for nothing but Fire and Perdition.
OBserving a Stick of Green Wood laid on the Fire, I thought on those words of our Lord, Luk. 23. 31. If they do these things in a Green Tree, what shall be done in the Dry? And I took the Gloss of the Blessed Old Theophylact upon it: If the Romans may do such things to me, that am a Tree full of Sap, and Fruit, what shall not they do to you, that are a people destitute of both: If you had any Good in you, you might have been spared: but now you are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, As a Dry Tree, fit for nothing but Fire and Perdition.