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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.
Thus, tho' the Smoke be bad for the Eyes, I have now seen something by the Help of the Smoke!
I suppose, the Smoke of this Riddle, will not now be so Thick, but that any one may see through it.
Sunt mihi sunt Lachrymoe sed non est causa doloris; Est iter ad Coelum, sed me gravis impedit Aer, Et qui me genuit, sine me non nascitur ipse.
But let the Ingenious carry on Reflection: upon each of those Articles, if they please, a their further Leisure.
But let the Ingenious carry on Reflection: upon each of those Articles, if they please, a their further Liesure.