N00887:67
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.
Again, Sometimes by reason of the cold, we omit the Duties of Charity, Our Charity is often as cold, as the Time, and because of the ⟨p. 38⟩Time. When we are Eating and Drinking at our Winter Tables, we are not grieved for those that want Meat or Drink: Nor are we grieved for the poor, who have no Covering, while we are well Covered, and are Shivering over a Brands End or two, (the Widows Fire,) while we are more than sufficiently Warmed, Our own circumstances, that should rather Excite us, to do all the Good we can, unto those that are not so well circumstanced, congeal us rather into an Insensibility of other peoples; and the Love of many waxes cold.
Once more; Don't we often misspend our Hours, by reason of the cold? Is not advantage taken, when our Clocks won't go, for such a mispence of Time, as if we dream the Time also Stood still! What Gaming, what Superstition, what Profanity, and (which is to say All the rest, and All the worst!) What Evil Company, is the Winter often made an occasion for? Truly, Our Lord Jesus Christ, is in some degree Denied, by a such miscarriages.
Once more; Don't we often mispend our Hours, by reason of the cold? Is not advantage taken, when our Clocks won't go, for such a mispence of Time, as if we dream the Time also Stood still! What Gaming, what Superstition, what Profanity, and (which is to say All the rest, and All the worst!) What Evil Company, is the Winter often made an occasion for? Truly, Our Lord Jesus Christ, is in some degree Denied, by a such miscarriages.
We will then Enquire,