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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.
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.
I must not yet lay aside my Conference, with the Flame. Its Purity, which admits nothing Heterogeneous, to lodge in it, would Stir up a pure mind, unto the Remembrance, of something that is much to be Desired. So Pure indeed is the Flame, that our English word Pure, seems derived from the Greek word of the same sound, […], which signifies, Fire; and possibly the old Saxon word, Fire, may be of •hat Original. The Flame is Pure; and, Oh, that I were so too! The Purity of the Ascending Flame, does put one in mind, of a passage, in the famous Catechism of David;
I must not yet lay aside my Conference, with the Flame. Its Purity, which admits nothing Heterogeneous, to lodge in it, would Stir up a pure mind, unto the Remembrance, of something that is much to be Desired. So Pure indeed is the Flame, that our English word Pure, seems derived from the Greek word of the same sound, 〈…〉, which signifies, Fyre; and possibly the old Saxon word, Fyre, may be of •hat Original. The Flame is Pure; and, Oh, that I were so too! The Purity of the Ascending Flame, does put one in mind, of a passage, in the famous Catechisim of David;
Q.Who shall Ascend into the H•ll of the Lord?
A. He that hath a Pure Heart.