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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.
Quoe res mortua vivam sepelit, ut in ipso etiam Sepulchro maneat viva et vivis mortuos cibos m•lliat, esuique aptos reddat, unde vita conservatur!
But I leave the ingenious Reader sitting by the Fire side now to unriddle it, and give him no further Help, than what is in my taking this place to mention it.
But I leave the ingenious Reader sitting by the Fire side now to unridle it, and give him no further Help, than what is in my taking this place to mention it.
I call to mind also, the Rebuke bestowed by Job, upon his Friends, Job 13. 12. Your Remembrances are like unto Ashes, your Bodies to Bodies of Clay.
But I shall bestow no other Illustration upon it, than what I find given by that best of Poets, the Incomparable Sir Richard Blackmore, in his paraphrase thereupon; I all your Counsels vain and Fruitless find, Like Dust which flies before the driving Wind, Your high discourses weak and tottering stand, Like heaps of Clay, or Uncemented Sand.