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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.
Our Second Observation.
Sometimes the Cold of the Weather, and the Winter, proves to men an Occasion, of their Denying the Lord, who made the Cold, and all our Succours against the Cold.
Quid prosuit Petro Exterius manus pidesq•• ad Ignem Calefeciffe, animo interim interius obriguisse! Says one upon it. What Good got Peter by the Fire, when he did so much Ill at the Fire! and what signified his warming o• his Hands and his Feet, while the zeal of his Heart for his Lord, had such a Cold upon it. Alas, The Cold of the Weather, and the Winter, often betrays us into a Moral Cold, which is infinitely worse than the Natural; and our want of being at the Fire, puts out the Fire of Religion in us. The Psalmist could say, Psal.147.18. Who can stand before Gods Cold! Even the Constancy of our Souls, in the Service of God, is often impaired and impeded by His Cold; tho' methinks, its being His Cold, should rather pinch us to the doing of our Duty in some respects, than chill; us from it.
We will briefly, and as the Cold now upon us, will allow us, Enquire,