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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.
While we have been bringing of Lessons from the Ashes, we have been as good as making of Glasses from them, for all those Uses. My Ashes undergo an happy and useful Vitrification, when they yield these Lessons unto us.
But I will, in one word, give the sum of all the Lessons: It happens. (and it is a mere Hap,) to be a Wednesday, wherein I write these things. I have before I am aware, made it, an Ash wednesday. And tho' I don't keep the day, yet I'll write the word for the Day, Memento, Homo, quod Cinis es.
But I will, in one word, give the sum of all the Lessons: It happens. (and it is a meer Hap,) to be a Wednesday, wherein I write these things. I have before I am aware, made it, an Ash wednesday. And tho' I don't keep the day, yet I'l write the word for the Day, Memento, Homo, quod Cinis es.
Addition.
I call to mind a little Riddle, that Heidfield has in the Sphinx Theological Phylosophica.