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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 Spirit of Prophecy here foretells the Downfall of Babylon: but it looks thorough & ⟨p. 163⟩beyond the Downfall of the Literal Babylon, down as far as that of the Mystical; the Town built with Blood, the City established by Iniquity, the Sorceress that makes the Neighbours Drunk, and Entices them into the Fornication of her Idolatries. The Oracle now before us, reports one special and signal character of the Time, when this Blessed Revolution is at the Door▪ And the general Importance of the Oracle, is, That an extraordinary, and an Astonishing Disappointment, shall attend the expectations of people in all their Affairs. The wrath of God, like a Fire, shall so devour the Effects of all their Labour, that when men have never so much wearied themselves, to bring about their purposes, they shall find nothing but Vanity frustrating all that they have purposed. People shall be strangely unprosperous in their most Hopeful, and most Likely Affairs, and have all their Hopes from very promising Objects evaporated into nothing.
The Spirit of Prophecy here foretells the Downfal of Babylon: but it looks thorough & ⟨p. 163⟩beyond the Downfal of the Literal Babylon, down as far as that of the Mystical; the Town built with Blood, the City established by Iniquity, the Sorceress that makes the Neighbours Drunk, and Entices them into the Fornication of her Idolatries. The Oracle now before us, reports one special and signal character of the Time, when this Blessed Revolution is at the Door▪ And the general Importance of the Oracle, is, That an extraordinary, and an Astonishing Disappointment, shall attend the expectations of people in all their Affairs. The wrath of God, like a Fire, shall so devour the Effects of all their Labour, that when men have never so much wearied themselves, to bring about their purposes, they shall find nothing but Vanity frustrating all that they have purposed. People shall be strangely unprosperous in their most Hopeful, and most Likely Affairs, and have all their Hopes from very promising Objects evaporated into nothing.