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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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Meditation XVI.
On the Burning Bush,
While I Sit by a Fire, where I see one piece of Wood after another Consumed, I call to mind a memorable point of History, which the Renowned Moses, that First-born of all Historians, whom even the Pagan Writers of After-Ages, do celebrate for A man of a great Soul, has left upon Eternal Record; and whereof Moses was an Eye-witness, himself. If I should see the Wood on my Fire, one Hour after another not consumed, I should with Astonishment call it, A Great Sight. But the Church of Israel, was to receive a famous Deliverance under the Conduct of Moses, one of the first things that Entertained that Eminent person was This; Exod. 3. 2. The Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Flame of Fire, out of the midst of a Bush; and be Looked, and, Behold, the Bush burned with fire and the Bush was not consumed.
WHile I Sit by a Fire, where I see one piece of Wood after another Consumed, I call to mind a memorable point of History, which the Renowned Moses, that First-born of all Historians, whom even the Pagan Writers of After-Ages, do celebrate for A man of a great Soul, has left upon Eternal Record; and whereof Moses was an Eye-witness, himself. If I should see the Wood on my Fire, one Hour after another not consumed, I should with Astonishment call it, A Great Sight. But the Church of Israel, was to receive a famous Deliverance under the Conduct of Moses, one of the first things that Entertained that Eminent person was This; Exod. 3. 2. The Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Flame of Fire, out of the midst of a Bush; and be Looked, and, Behold, the Bush burned with fire and the Bush was not consum•d.