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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.
The CONTENTS.
WE read, Isa. 6. 6. Of, A Live-Coal taken with the Tongs from off the Altar. The Incomparable Bochart asserts, That the word, which we render, A Coal, signifies, A Stone; and he confirms it with incontestable Authority from Antiquity. He says, That Red-hot stones were much improved in the Fires of the Ancients, to forward the various Designs upon which the Fires were kindled; and that there were such Red-hot stones upon the Altar, to help forward the Consumption of the Sacrifices.
Perhaps our Meditations may lye like Red hot-Stones in the Readers Fire And now, to lay the Red-hot Stones together in an Heap, that the Reader may take out which of them he please, at any time, […] Touch his own Heart withal. Behold, the Contents.
Perhaps our Meditations may lye like Red hot-Stones in the Readers Fire And now, to lay the Red-hot Stones together in an Heap, that the Reader may take out which of them he please, at any time, 〈…〉 Touch his own Heart withal. Behold, the Contents.
The INTRODUCTION. P.7 A Winter-SERMON, on Peter by the Fire. 17 The Approach to the Fire. 41