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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.
Christianus per Ignem. Or, A Disciple WARMING himself And OWNING hi… › Meditation 20: Meditation XX.
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.
Made by the Holy Spirit of God And, Lord, keep me from grieving, and vexing thy Holy Spirit, by indulging my self in Sin, le•t He withdrawing from me, leave me under all the Calamities of a Prayerless and a Frozen Soul! But, Oh, Thou Holy Spirit, Blow thou upon this Dead Heart of mine: and, Quicken me, that I may call upon thy Name.
The Blast of this Meditation is no sooner over, but another succeeds. Having only a little Coal, and indeed scarce a Coal, but a Spark, before me, to Blow, I find, That if I Blow it with Fury and Fierceness, I shall utterly Lose it. But I must therefore Blow it very Gently; and with a little Gentleness in my ⟨p. 130⟩thus managing of it, I shall anon bring it into a Flame, that will be very serviceable to me.
The Blast of this Meditation is no soener over, but another succeeds. Having only a little Coal, and indeed scarce a Coal, but a Spark, before me, to Blow, I find, That if I Blow it with Fury and Fierceness, I shall utterly Lose it. But I must therefore Blow it very Gently; and with a little Gentleness in my ⟨p. 130⟩thus managing of it, I shall anon bring it into a Flame, that will be very serviceable to me.
Nutritur vento, vento resting uttur Ignis; Lenis alit […] Grandier Aura necat.
Nutritur vento, vento resting uttur Ignis; Lenis alit 〈…〉 Grandier Aura necat.