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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.
I remember a condition of much Affliction, is thus painted out. Isa. 14. 31; There shall come a Smoke. And when I see, the solid Wood on the Fire, evaporating into Smoke, which Mounts ⟨p. 169⟩up towards Heaven, I see the Vanity of all worldly Enjoyments, livelily described unto me. May I take off my Heart from Enjoyments, that are so easily Evaporated, and not set my Heart on the Things that will flee away towards Heaven, but on the Things of Heaven it self.
Methinks, in the Smoke I see likewise the picture of Pride: For it so bad, and ba•e, and black a thing as the Smoke proceed from the brightest Fire, so does Pride from our brightest and bravest Excellencies: but when a man through' his Pride is got unto the highest, all presently vanishes into Nothing Reader, Which is it, Smoke or Pride, that is intended in this Description? Sese Erigit, sed mox deficiens, quasi n•n fuerit, evanescit, et cum e rerum opulentia intuneseat, in altum elata, quasi Exhalans, Evaporata ac dispersa, in Nihilum convertitur.
Methinks, in the Smoke I see likewise the picture of Pride: For it so bad, and ba•e, and black a thing as the Smoke proceed from the brightest Fire, so does Pride from our brightest and bravest Excellencies: but when a man thro' his Pride is got unto the highest, all presently vanishes into Nothing Reader, Which is it, Smoke or Pride, that is intended in this Description? Sese Erigit, sed mox deficiens, quasi n•n fuerit, evanescit, et cum e rerum opulentia intuneseat, in altum elata, quasi Exhalans, Evaporata ac dispersa, in Nihilum convertitur.