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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.
A Christian has abundant Occasions for Ejaculatory Petitions, both on the behalf of himself and of others.
The Favours of God, for our Inward man, may on many Occasions be supplicated with our Ejaculations. As now; we may take Occasions for such Ejaculations and Supplications, from the Ordinances of God. Before we set upon any signal Exercise of Religion, there is Occasion for some such Ejaculations, as That; O Lord, Assist me to draw water out of this Well of Salvation; or, Let the words of my mouth. and the thoughts of heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord. And all the while, we are in the Exercise, there is Occasion for multiplied Ejaculations. While we are joining with another in Social Praying, we may fix our wandering hearts, by annexing such a pertinent Ejaculation unto all that he utters, as, Lord, I own it! or, Lord, I ask it! When the Congregation that sat under our Lords Ministry, heard Him, (who was It) speaking about the Bread of Life, they presently made an Ejaculation upon it; Lord, give us this Bread for ever. Thus in the Hearing of a Good Sermon, a Studious Head, and a Gracious Heart, may tack a serious Ejaculation upon every thing that shall be offered. The Preacher it may be, while he is getting his own Sermon (I say not, by Head, ⟨p. 146⟩but) by Heart; before he comes abroad, makes many scores of Ejaculations, thereupon, Why may not the Hearer digest the Sermon into as many Ejaculations, when it shall be publicly p•onou••ed•? Possibly, not one Head, and […] Text, in all the Sermon may pass without some Ejaculation from the Soul of such a labour us Heater, Echoing back to the words of God. And when the Sermon is o•er is there no Occasion for us to go out of the […], with such an Ejaculation as that; Lord keep these things, in the imagination of the Thoughts of my Heart for ever! How shall we worthily Approach to the Lords Table? Do it Prayerfully. Oh! what plentiful and wonderful Occasions for Ejaculations there! Our Meditations; it will be most convenient for us, to inte mix multitudes of Ejaculations in them; In the Singing of a Psalm, yea, and in the Reading of & Chapter, would we do to purpose what we do? We may Try, whether we can't form some Ejaculation out of every Verse, as we go along.