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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.