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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.
The motion of the Heart, is in its Thoughts, its Loves, its Hopes an its Joys. May mine always be upward, and Heavenward Lord; Inflame this miserable Heart of mine, with thy Love, and it will be so!
The motion of the Heart, is in its Thoughts, its Loves, its Hopes an its Joyes. May mine always be upward, and Heavenward Lord; Enflame this miserable Heart of mine, with thy Love, and it will be so!
But a Christian that would keep a constant Flame of Devotion in his Heart, always Ascending towards God and Christ and Heaven, cannot more effectually do so, than by filling every day of his Life, with that sort of Prayers, which we call Ejacul••to••. By the Daily and Hourly Use of Ejaculatory Prayers, a Christian may have his Heart, like a Flame, continually mounting upward, unto the Heavens, and Our Father which is in the Heavens.
Now, It is impossible for me to mention all the Numerous, and indeed Numberless, Occasions, for Ejaculatory Prayers; but if a Christian will Watchfully improve such Occasions, ⟨p. 145⟩as are now to be mentioned, he will be Taught of God, how to improve the rest.