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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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Meditation XXXI
On the Wood Lying too close.
WE know, That Air is necessary to Flame. And our knowledge of it, is notably confirmed, by the Experiment of the Air •ump, where Gunpowder it self, cast upon Hot Iron, will only melt and not flash in the Exhausted Receiver. And possibly to this may be owing the Experiment mentioned by my Lord Bacon, That if you hold an Arrow in the Flame for ten pulses, you shall find those parts of the Arrow which were on the Out side of the Flame far more burned and blacked, when that in the midst […] the Flame, will be as if the Fire had hardly touched it. Yea, the Divine Oracles, [for such is the Fullness of them!] do seem to take notice of this Experiment, in Ezek. 15: 4 Where, first, Both Ends of the Vine stalk are devoured and then the midst of it is burnt. But without those Experiments, we have enough of it every day, when our Fire will not burn, because the Wood lies too close The Fire will be smothered and obstructed, if the Air have not Access unto it.
WE know, That Air is necessary to Flame. And our knowledge of it, is notably confirmed, by the Experiment of the Air •ump, where Gunpowder it self, cast upon Hot Iron, will only melt and not flash in the Exhausted Receiver. And possibly to this may be owing the Experiment mentioned by my Lord Bacon, That if you hold an Arrow in the Flame for ten pulses, you shall find those parts of the Arrow which were on the Out side of the Flame far more burned and blacked, when that in the midst the Flame, will be as if the Fire had hardly touched it. Yea, the Divine Oracles, [for such is the Fulness of them!] do seem to take notice of this Experiment, in