N00887:170
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.
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.
I Call to mind a Remarkable thing prophesied and promised, Zech. 12 6 I will make the Governors of Judah, like an Hearth of Fire among the Wood, and they shall devour all the people ⟨p. 90⟩round about. Many Sticks and Logs of Wood, cast on an Hearth of Fire, seem to threaten the Suppression and Extinction of the Fire. But the Fire is not so to be suppressed; no, the Wood it self shall be consumed; and let never so many parcels of it be brought one after another, they shall all be in like manner consumed.
I Call to mind a Remarkable thing prophecied and promised, Zech. 12 6 I will make the Governours of Judah, like an Hearth of Fire among the Wood, and they shall devour all the people ⟨p. 90⟩round about. Many Sticks and Logs of Wood, cast on an Hearth of Fire, seem to threaten the Suppression and Extinction of the Fire. But the Fire is not so to be suppressed; no, the Wood it self shall be consumed; and let never so many parcels of it be brought one after another, they shall all be in like manner consumed.
The Enemies of the Church, are cast by Satan, upon it, with an Intention to suppress it, cover it, bury it, and smother it for ever. But all the Enemies, whether Seducers, or Oppressors, that are by Satan cast upon it, shall be but like Sticks and Logs of Wood, thrown upon an Hearth of Fire; instead of putting out the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they shall be destroyed every one of them. The Experience of all Ages, has notably demonstrated, and Illustrated this Observation; That the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, has been like an Hearth of Fire, unto all its Adversaries; They that have Adversaried the Church, have but cast themselves like Wood upon an Hearth of Fire: At the long run, they have put out nothing; but been themselves Devoured.