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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.
Q.Who shall Ascend into the H•ll of the Lord?
A. He that hath a Pure Heart.
A Pure Heart, like a Pure Flame, will admit nothing to be lodged in it, but what shall be of an Heavenly Tendency, and pleasing to the God of Heaven. And when I Learn from the Oracles of God, of what consequence it is to have, A pure Heart; particularly, That it shall be Blessed with the Sight of God; I will no ⟨p. 143⟩longer count it a Disgrace, to be, A Puritan.
I have within me a Conscience, whereof, if I make, the Flame to be a Picture, I draw it by the Light of a Proverb, that fell from the Pen of Solomon, The Spirit of a man is the Candle of the Lord. But then I read of some, Whose Conscience is Defiled. Every Sin is a discomposing of that Flame, with some Vile Pollution cast into it: And if Sin be not pardoned, and Removed, with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cast into the Flame, the Polluted Conscience, will but Burn the more fiercely for it, throughout Eternal Ages. Oh, That I might preserve all Purity of Soul; and Cleansing my self from all Filthiness of Flesh and Spirit, O let me keep alive a Pure Flame of Love to God, in my Heart, Purified by Faith, continually. There is a promise, which I am to plead with God, that I may obtain this Favour from Him, I will Purify the Sons of Levi.