N00887:211
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 our Lord JESUS CHRIST, who is the Lord of the Sabbath, and of that Grand Millennial Sabbatism, whereof our Weekly Sabbath, is a prefiguration, hath directed us, now to keep for our Weekly Sabbath, another Day, even the Day following that which the Israelites were directed unto: and we are not sure, that those Learned men are mistaken, who think, that this our Christian Sabbath, is the true Seventh Day from the Creation. Our Lord Jesus Christ lay in His Grave, all the Day of the Jewish Sabbath, and in that Grave it was Buried for ever; His Rising out of His Grave, ⟨p. 115⟩on the Ensuing Day, gave us another Day for our Christian Sabbath, which is a Figure of that Millennial Sabbatism, that is to arrive at the Resurrection […] the Just. […], (which name signified […] Beggar,) and his Disciples, would have •ept the Primitive Christians, in Bondage to the Observation of Days, besides Months and Times and Years; which Days can be interpreted of none but the Sature days, which were the Choicest of all Days among the Jews, and as Phil calls it. The Queen of Days: And which above any Days held them in a Degree of Servitude unto infinite Niceties: Now our Apostle most agreeable tells the Galatians, [Ch.4. 10.] That this war to Turn again unto Beggarly Elements. The Jewish Treatise, Of the Sabbath, Enjoined the keeping of Saturdays but our Apostle says to the Colossians, [Ch. 2. 16.] Let no man judge you from that Section, or condemn you, for doing amiss in your not keeping the Jewish Sabbath Days, as well as their other Holidays. But what? Are we then at Liberty to observe no Sabbath Holy at all? An Holy Soul, would count that Liberty, a cursed Slavery, tho' all the Seneca's in the world, should scoff at him for it. No; There is a Day of the Week, which the Holy Spirit hath expressly called, [Rev. 1. 10.] The Lords Day. That by the LORDS DAY, is meant no other than the same Day of the Week, ⟨p. 116⟩which we now call so, we have as much Evidence, as that HMEPA KYPIAKH signifies, The Lords Day; the Evidence of Incontestable Tradition. […]. therefore in his Epistle to the Magn••••• which was written within Eight or Ten Years, after Johns Writing his Revelation, has these memorable words, That instead of the Jewish Sabbaths, we should keep the LORDS DAY, on which our Life Ros from the Dead.