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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 11: Meditation XI.
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Meditation XI.
On throwing a piece of Leather into the Fire.
ONE casting into the Fire, a bit of Leather, its moving, its wriggling, its twisting one way and another, carried some show of Sense with it: It seemed as if it had the same sense in it, which there would have been in the Creature to which it once belonged: One is ready to expect a Cry from it. A thing wholly Insensible, does in the Fire I see, put on a Semblance of mighty Sensibility.
An Hypocrite is one without a principle of Life: He is one altogether destitute of that Life, wherein God is Known, and Served, and Glorified. He has no Living Sense of Spiritual and Eternal Objects. But when an Hypocrite is cast into the Fire of some Affliction, he seems as if he had some Life in him: his Prayers, and his Vows, and his Devout Resolutions, and various Devotions, look very Sensibly, when some Grief or Fear is Afflicting of him. One would think, who but a Child of God, could be so serious, and so Sensible, as we see this Afflicted Hypocrite? Oh, There's no Relying ⟨p. 89⟩