N00887:356
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.
'What is the chief Trouble of my Soul?
Answer
I feel none, like That of the Sin remaining in me, which indisposes me to Glorify my Lord Jesus Christ; and which Grieves His Holy Spirit.
He that can truly say these things, can Endure the Fire, and shall never be moved.
But then, in the next place, I am to Remember, That the Blessed God, by the Affliction, which He sends upon me, does cast me into the Fire, to manifest what I am. Affliction is a Trial; Yea, I can find, where the Book which miscalls nothing, has called it, A Fiery Trial. And thus we read, 1 Pet. 1. 6, 7. Ye are in Heaviness, through' many Temptations, that the Trial of your Faith, being much more precious than that of Gold which perisheth, tho' it be tried with fire, may be found unto praise A Sickness is a Fire, a Reproach is a Fire, a Loss is a Fire, (and the uneasiness thereby given to our Spirit makes the comparison too sensible;) in which a Trial is made of us, whether we have the Spirit, not of Bastards, but of Children in