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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
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Christianus per Ignem. Or, A Disciple WARMING himself And OWNING hi… › Meditation 2: Meditation II.
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.
Meditation II.
On the Benefits of the Fire.
I AM going to Discourse with and on my Fire; and fetch from it many Lessons of ⟨p. 48⟩no little Importance. But the very Season in which I do this doe• fi•st Arrest me, to pay; Debt of Thankfulness unto the Bountiful God for my Fire, before I can go any further. Tis a Winter morning; and the Cold of the Winter so assaults and pinches me, that were it n•• for the warmth of my Fire, I suppose […] benumbed Hand, instead of Writing a Reflect on, would be Folded with the Arms of the Sluggard, How proper is it for my Opened an Quickened Hand, now to write the praises o• my Almighty Benefactor, among whose Numberless Benefits, those of the Fire are to b• Numbered, with a particular Accent upon them!
I AM going to Discourse with and on my Fire; and fetch from it many Lessons of ⟨p. 48⟩no little Importance. But the very Season in which I do this doe• fi•st Arrest me, to pay; Debt of Thankfulness unto the Bountiful God for my Fire, before I can go any further. Tis a Winter morning; and the Cold of the Winter so assaults and pinches me, that were it n for the warmth of my Fire, I suppose benum'd Hand, instead of Writing a Reflect on, would be Folded with the Arms of the Sluggard, How proper is it for my Open'd an Quicken'd Hand, now to write the praises o my Almighty Benefactor, among whose Numberless Benefits, those of the Fire are to b Numbered, with a particular Accent upon them!