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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
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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.
Meditation XXX.
On Labouring in the Fire.
Sometimes I see a Writing, or some other curious, and perhaps tedious, Effect of Labour, thrown into the Fire; and then what becomes of all the Labour? This however shall come of it! It shall engage me in a short Meditation, on those words of the Prophet, Hab. 2 13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of Hosts, that the people shall Labour in the very Fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
SOmetimes I see a Writing, or some other curious, and perhaps tedious, Effect of Labour, thrown into the Fire; and then what becomes of all the Labour? This however shall come of it! It shall engage me in a short Meditation, on those words of the Prophet, Hab. 2 13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of Hosts, that the people shall Labour in the very Fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
The Spirit of Prophecy here foretells the Downfall of Babylon: but it looks thorough & ⟨p. 163⟩