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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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THE most of those Things, that be Arrested by the Fire, I see Consumed in it. But I see some Things, as Alumen Plumosum, and especially Metals, and most of all, that King of all Metals, Gold, outlive the Force of the Fire. Some of my Gold Rings fallen into the Fire, were after long lying there, taken ⟨p. 97⟩out unwasted. This leads me, to a Meditation, & Illustration of a passage in, 1 Cor. 2. 12, 15. If a man build upon this Foundation, Gold, Silver, Precious Stones, Wood, Hay, Stubble; every mans work shall be made manifest: For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be Revealed by Fire; and the Fire shall try every mans work, of what sort it is. If any mans work abide, which he hath built thereon, be shall receive a Reward. If any mans work shall be Burnt, he shall suffer loss.
We are to suppose a stately Edifice; the Walls whereof are of Marble and precious Stones; the Pillars are partly of Gold, and partly of Silver; the Boards are of choice Wood. Tho' the Roof of such an Edifice, do not use to be Thatched with Hay and Stubble, yet such may be the Fault of the Teachers in the Churches, as to make it so.
We are to suppose a stately Edifice; the Walls whereof are of Marble and precious Stones; the Pillars are partly of Gold, and partly of Silver; the Boards are of choice Wood. Tho' the Roof of such an Edifice, do not use to be Thatch'd with Hay and Stubble, yet such may be the Fault of the Teachers in the Churches, as to make it so.
Now the Work, that men have thus been doing about the Doctrine of Christianity. The Day shall declare it.