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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.
JOHN XVIII.18. They made a Fire of Coals (for it was cold,) and they warmed themselves; & Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
THERE is now before us to be seen, A Disciple at the Fire-side; but it is a very Terrible and Amazing thing, that we may see in this Disciple. It will be seasonable to Entertain you, with such a Sight, on so Cold a Day as this, when the Season drives us all so much unto the Fire side. You shall all Return, if you please, within this Hour, to your own Fire ⟨p. 18⟩side; and that every Minute of your own being in the mean Time here, may not seem an Hour, I'll keep you all this Time, at the Fireside, where our Lord Jesus Christ was Den•'d by a Disciple of His own; but with a Design thereby a preserve you, from the Danger of doing like this Disciple
The Time of our Lords being Arraigned, and Condemned, for us, had this Remark upon it; It was Cold. May that Circumstance add some warmth unto our Meditations on the Sufferings of our Lord. When we Remember, that the Agonies which our Lord in a Cold Night Endured for us, were such as notwithstanding His then Lying on the Cold Ground, threw Him into a bloody Sweat, it may well make us cry out, Lord, what means the Heat of this Anger? And beholding the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ unto us, in these His direful Agonies, we must acknowledge, The Coals of this Love, were Coals of Fire, having a most vehement Flame. What a deplorable Thing is it, that a Disciple, who had newly seen these Agonies of his Lords Love unto Him, should when Warming himself by a Fire of Coals, in that very Night, find his own Love unto his Lord so Cold, as to Deny Him!