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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 XVII.
On the Kindling of a Fire in the Lords Day.
If Works of Necessity and of Compassion, may be done on the Sabbath, which is a Day set apart for the Services of Religion, and not allowing Servile Offices to be done upon it; the Kindling of my Fire this Day, which is our Christian Sabbath, although' it were done for the Relict of my Flesh, is not to be Numbered ⟨p. 111⟩among the Works of the Flesh: If there were a Necessity of my Attending the Services of Religion this Day, there was a Necessity of my defending my self by a Fire against the Cold, that would else have cramped those Holy Services: And while I am Engaged herein, such is the Compassion of the Lord, who will have Mercy rather than Sacrifice, that He permits my Interior to treat my Exterior, with the Compassion of a Fire provided, without which my Sacrifice had been that of a Fool. But if it were proper to Kindle a Fire, on the Sabbath, I am sure, it will not be less proper to Employ and Apply my Fire unto the Sacred purposes, which are most of all proper to the Sabbath; and let the Fire kindle in my Soul, those Thoughts, by which the Sabbath will be Sanctified.
If Works of Necessity and of Compassion, may be done on the Sabbath, which is a Day set apart for the Services of Religion, and not allowing Servile Offices to be done upon it; the Kindling of my Fire this Day, which is our Christian Sabbath, altho' it were done for the Relict of my Flesh, is not to be Numbred