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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.
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In the Accommodation, which my Fire gives to very many of my circumstances, I enjoy great Blessings of God. Tho' my Fire has ⟨p. 49⟩not immediately come down from Heaven, to me, like that upon the Israelitish Altars: Yet I can, by ascending but a very few Steps of contemplation, see the God of Heaven bestowing my Fire upon me. Those Igneous particles, which when more loosely Diffused, make Heat, and when more closely collected and compacted, make Flame, are a creature of God, and no inconsiderable part of His Creation. The Fuel, which gathers these Igneous particles together, and puts them, and feeds them, in their motion, for my present Comfort, is bestowed upon me, by the Kindness of God: nor should I be able to subsist, if He had not been •o Kind unto me.
In the Accommodation, which my Fire gives to very many of my circumstances, I enjoy great Blessings of God. Tho' my Fire has ⟨p. 49⟩not immediately come down from Heaven, to me, like that upon the Israelitish Altars: Yet I can, by ascending but a very few Steps of contemplation, see the God of Heaven bestowing my Fire upon me. Those Igneous particles, which when more loosely Diffused, make Heat, and when more closely collected and compacted, make Flame, are a creature of God, and no inconsiderable part of His Creation. The Fuel, which gathers these Igneous particles together, and puts them, and feeds them, in their motion, for my present Comfort, is bestow'd upon me, by the Kindness of God: nor should I be able to subsist, if He had not been •o Kind unto me.
I could but pi•ty the poor Indians in the Marian Islands, when I found Le Gotten in his late History of those Islands, reporting, That before the Arrival of the Spaniards there, they had never seen any Fire; and the First Fire that Magellan kindled, they looked on, as a terrible Animal, which devoured the wood, and kept at an huge Distance from it for fear it should Hurt them. If those Islands, had been of the same Latitude, and a Climate of the same Cold, and Frost and Snow, with our Country, the condition of those Indians must have been altogether Insupportable. The supports that we receive by our Fire, are so Convenient, yea, so Necessary, that if we never make our Fire, an Article of our Thanksgiving