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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 XXXIII.
On the Tongs.
Among the Instruments that are useful and needful about my Fire, the Tongs are very often taken into the Hands of them that see occasion for them; and I will now take them into mine. Our name, Tongs, and the Ancient Saxon, Tong, I suppose comes from the Italian Tango, to Hold. I will now by my Tongs, Lay Hold on a Thought or two, not improper for a Minister of the Gospel: For, It the Employment, and Benefit of the Tongs methinks I see several points, whereof every Minister of the Gospel should be ambitious.
AMong the Instruments that are useful and needful about my Fire, the Tongs are very often taken into the Hands of them that see occasion for them; and I will now take them into mine. Our name, Tongs, and the Ancient Saxon, Tong, I suppose comes from the Italian T•ngo, to Hold. I will now by my Tongs, Lay Hold on a Thought or two, not improper for a Minister of the Gospel: For, It the Employment, and Benefit of the Tongs methinks I see several points, whereof every Minister of the Gospel should be ambitious.
First, If by the Tongs, things are Laid in Order about the Fire, I also find an Eminent Minister of the Gospel, professing to Set things in Order, where he comes And I wish, that I may be so happy as to put things in Order, and keep them so, in every Society, whereto I may be Related. And again; If by the Tongs, those things that are in the Fire, are pulled out of it, I find this also directed unto a Minister of the Gospel, To pull Sinners out of the Fire. I wish accordingly, That by my