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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.
Scintilla e minima quantus tibi nascitur Ign••!
And now, I cannot but call to mind, those words of the Apostle; Jam. 3 5. Behold, how great a matter, a little fire kindles!
The Thing which the Apostle calls us more ⟨p. 173⟩immediately to observe, is. That though an Evil Tongue seems but a little thing, yet vast Contentions and Confusions are produced by this little Thing. An Evil Tongue is very […] compared unto Fire; and it is therefore said of an Evil man, In his Lips there is a Burning Fire. The provocation given by the Reproaches and Outrages of an Evil Tongue, does greatly inflame the Spirits of men; yea, for the continuance thereof', 'tis resembled Psal. 120 4 to Coals of Juniper, which as […] the Hottest. so they […] the Longest of any,(they may be kept, they, […] a […] •ear together) We read of a Coven Tongue, that came as a Fire, from Heaven; but o• this Evil Tongue, we are advised that it is a Fire kindled from Hell; and we may conclude, that, as one sales, A Tongue set on Fire from Hell, shall be set on Fire in Hell Truly, by one rash and raging and railing word of an Evil Tongue a man may be in Danger of Hell fir•• The Hot words of such an Evil Tongue, will set on Fire the whole course of Nature, or Diffuse mischiefs into every condition of Life. In all the Changes, through' which we roll along, in our whole Conversation here, an Evil Tongue will Embroil our Affairs with all sorts of mischiefs; There is no Calling, there is no Action, there is no person, wih whom we can be concerned, but an Evil Tongue, would involve all in most incredible mischiefs. I will therefore make this