N00887:210
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.
But be this prohibition understood, one ⟨p. 113⟩way or the other, as the different Inclination of mens Understanding may carry them; 'Tis evident from it, That a Sabbath is to be Sanctified. We are assured, Gen. 2 3. That from the Creation of the World, God Sanctified the Seventh Day, or commanded that it should be Separated, and Dedicated, unto Sacred Services, How? Surely not merely be ordering that it should be kept Holy by the little Nation of Israel, twenty four hundred years afterwards. No, the Patriarchs long before Israel. did use to keep an Holy Sabbath, Even, [Heb. 4. 11.] from the Foundations of the World. And some think, that Noah in the Ark, [Gen.8. 8, 10, 12.] had respect unto such an Holy Sabbath. Very Positive is the Fourth Commandment in the Law of our God, Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy; But how often must a Sabbath Day Recur? It follows; Six Days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work, but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. It must be One Day in Seven; but the Specification of which Day, must be Left unto the Lord our God: the Commandment refers no more to the Saturday Sabbath, than to the Sunday Sabbath. There is cause to suspect, That the Weekly Sabbath was utterly lost, among the Israelites, in the Time of their Egyptian Captivity and Idolatry; and by consequence, that the true Seventh Day from the Creation, could not easily be Recovered, ⟨p. 114⟩for do but Read the Stromes of Clemens Alexandrinus, and you will be satisfied, That no Nation but Israel, for many Ages after the Days of Moses, had any such measure of Time, as that of Weeks, among them, When the Great Lord of Time, Revived among His People, the observation of an Holy Time unto Himself, in a Weekly Sabbath, it was the Seventh Day, from the Falling of Man•• in the Desert; and from thence forward, the Seventh Day as often as it recurred, was to be the Weekly Sabbath, in the Church of God; until the Coming of Him, in whom the Man•• hath its Antitype. The Sovereign Lord, who hath Honoured the Number Seven, with Great Mysteries and Periods running upon it, hath required a Seventh part of our Time to be kept Holy unto Himself.