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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.
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.
Now the Work, that men have thus been doing about the Doctrine of Christianity. The Day shall declare it.
Tempus cuncta docet, quo non est certior Ignis.
And, It shall be Revealed by Fire. Houses in length of Time, use to be seized by Fire, either through' Chance, or War, or Lightning from Heaven. And then the Gold that is about such Houses, is utterly incombustible; the other Materials do more or less Resist the ⟨p. 98⟩Fire; but the Hay and Stubble is presently burnt up. A Fire shall come upon the Doctrine of Christianity, that has been taught in the Churches. What Fire? 'Tis a gloss of Grotius upon it; Incendio respondet Lux quoe ab Ecclesiis omnibus uni Ecclesioe Laberanti allucet. God will One Day stir up His Churches, to Examine the Doctrine of Christianity that has been taught among them. Where Teachers have taught things agreeable to the Lord Jesus Christ, they shall Receive a Reward, and be Honoured in all the Churches of the Lord. Where Teachers have taught such Ill and False Things as they did at Corinth, they shall be Censured in the Churches of the Lord, and it will be with Difficulty (as out of a Fire!) if ever they arrive unto the Eternal Salvation of their Souls.
And, It shall be Revealed by Fire. Houses in length of Time, use to be seized by Fire, either thro' Chance, or War, or Lightning from Heaven. And then the Gold that is about such Houses, is utterly incombustible; the other Materials do more or less Resist the ⟨p. 98⟩Fire; but the Hay and Stubble is presently burnt up. A Fire shall come upon the Doctrine of Christianity, that has been taught in the Churches. What Fire? 'Tis a gloss of Grotius upon it; Incendio respondet Lux quoe ab Ecclesiis omnibus uni Ecclesioe Laberanti allucet. God will One Day stir up His Churches, to Examine the Doctrine of Christianity that has been taught among them. Where Teachers have taught things agreeable to the Lord Jesus Christ, they shall Receive a Reward, and be Honoured in all the Churches of the Lord. Where Teachers have taught such Ill and False Things as they did at Corinth, they shall be Censured in the Churches of the Lord, and it will be with Difficulty (as out of a Fire!) if ever they arrive unto the Eternal Salvation of their Souls.