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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.
Upon a Stove.
Going out of my Study, to take some Notice of my Little Folks in a Room accommodated with that great convenience for a Family of Little Folks, A Stove, I saw occasion to take another Pen in hand, for some Reflection. A Stove has no little Advantages of Cheapness, & Neatness & Safety, and Uniform warmth, in any part of the Room, at any time of the year, for to Recommend it; nor is there any thing, that I know of, in the Objection of its ⟨p. 196⟩being Unwholesome (if it be not overheated,) for to Discommend it. But as my Stove has done me many another Service, it shall now Serve me with a Reflection, and Instruction of Christianity.
GOing out of my Study, to take some Notice of my Little Folks in a Room accommodated with that great convenience for a Family of Little Folks, A Stove, I saw occasion to take another Pen in hand, for some Reflection. A Stove has no little Advantages of Cheapness, & Neatness & Safety, and Uniform warmth, in any part of the Room, at any time of the year, for to Recommend it; nor is there any thing, that I know of, in the Objection of its ⟨p. 196⟩being Unwholesome (if it be not overheated,) for to Discommend it. But as my Stove has done me many another Service, it shall now Serve me with a Reflection, and Instruction of Christianity.
The Fire in my Stove does abundance of Service, to all about it, yea, (as it is placed,) in two Rooms at once. My House is not now a Bethzenun, or place of Cold, (as the Jews called the Country that lay near the Snows of Lebanon:) but I have an April, or September there, in the midst of January: and yet the Fire which does all that Service, keeps out of Sight; no body Sees it; People feel the Effect, while they see not the Cause.