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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.
Christianus per Ignem. Or, A Disciple WARMING himself And OWNING hi… › The Approach to the Fire.
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 Approach to the Fire.
IT is related in the Journal of the Apostle Pauls Voyage to Rome, That being Shipwrecked upon Malta, [Act.28.2.] The barbarous people showed no little kindness, for they kindled a Fire. If I should now only kindle a Fire for my Friends; tho' they might count it no little kindness, yet it were no more, than what might be shown by a barbarous Maltese. I will therefore essay to do my Friends a greater kindness, while indeed I shall therein do my self the greatest kindness, of all, by making the Fire which we have kindled, yield a Diviner sort of warmth unto us, than what is ⟨p. 42⟩ordinarily •est by the most of them that approach the Fire. Let us address our selves unto it.
IT is related in the Journal of the Apostle Pauls Voyage to Rome, That being Shipwreck'd upon Malta, [Act.28.2.] The barbarous people showed no little kindness, for they kindled a Fire. If I should now only kindle a Fire for my Friends; tho' they might count it no little kindness, yet it were no more, than what might be shown by a barbarous Maltese. I will therefore essay to do my Friends a greater kindness, while indeed I shall therein do my self the greatest kindness, of all, by making the Fire which we have kindled, yield a Diviner sort of warmth unto us, than what is ⟨p. 42⟩ordinarily •est by the most of them that approach the Fire. Let us address our selves unto it.