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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.
Reflection III.
Sin is a Fruitful, as well as a Fearful Evil, and one Sin, seldom goes alone. When Peter had begun to gratify the Tempter, where did he stop? The beginning of his miscarriage, was that, Mat 26.58. He followed the Lord Jesus Christ afar off; and held back from sticking so close unto Him, as he should have done. But whither did that slavish Fear carry him on? It carried him on, to the Renouncing and Forswearing of the Lord, and this with a prodigious Reiteration of it. Sin does harden the Heart. If a man be once prevailed withal to Sin a little, he will shortly Sin a great deal. A Sinner is, as we read, 2 Tim.2.26. In the snare of the Devil. Sirs, If you come into that Snare, you cannot imagine how you will find your selves more & more Entangled in it: Oh, Beware of the very first and least Entanglements!
Sin is a Fruitful, as well as a Fearful Evil, and one Sin, seldome goes alone. When Peter had begun to gratify the Tempter, where did he stop? The beginning of his miscarriage, was that, Mat 26.58. He followed the Lord Jesus Christ afar off; and held back from sticking so close unto Him, as he should have done. But whither did that slavish Fear carry him on? It carry'd him on, to the Renouncing and Forswearing of the Lord, and this with a prodigious Reiteratton of it. Sin does harden the Heart. If a man be once prevailed withal to Sin a little, he will shortly Sin a great deal. A Sinner is, as we read, 2 Tim.2.26. In the snare of the Devil. Syrs, If you come into that Snare, you cannot imagine how you will find your selves more & more Entangled in it: Oh, Beware of the very first and least Entanglements!