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 Leisure by the fire-Side.Ig•eus esse debes, hoc est, Fervidus, in Colendo Deo ••o, ut ne ille immittat in te ignem a Coelo, et •andem te adjudicet igni infernali! Alsted. Theol. Nature.Boston: Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen, for Benjamin Eliot at his Shop. 1702.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 by the fire-Side.Ig•eus esse debes, hoc est, Fervidus, in Colendo Deo ••o, ut ne ille immittat in te ignem a Coelo, et •andem te adjudicet igni infernali! Alsted. Theol. Natur.Boston: Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen, for Benjamin Eliot at his Shop. 1702.Title page of Christianus per ignem. Or, A disciple warming of himself and owning of his Lord:…, Boston, 1702Christianus per ignem. Or, A disciple warming of himself and owning of his Lord:…Cotton Mather, 1702

Meditation VIII.

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Meditation VIII.

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On the Lighting of a Candle at the Fire.

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Going this Evening, to write a short Reflection upon my Fire, it was necessary my Candle should first be Lighted, and it being at the Fire it self that it was Lighted, this very circumstance affords me something to Reflect upon.

GOing this Evening, to write a short Reflection upon my Fire, it was necessary my Candle should first be Lighted, and it being at the Fire it self that it was Lighted, this very circumstance affords me something to Reflect upon.

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If I compare Contention unto the Fire, I shall have Scripture and Reason enough, to justify the comparison. And now, though I hope, I shall not be a man of Contention my self, yet I would fain fetch Light from the Contention wherein I see other men engaged. Let the Heat of Contentious people afford Light unto me, and let me Learn many Instructions of Wisdom, out of their Foolish Contentions.

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Whatever Contentions do happen, they may soon Teach me, What a strange Efficacy Satan has, upon Humane Spirits and Affairs, when God shall permit a perverse Spirit for to be mingled in a Neighbourhood, or in a Nation: And, How Selfish men are, how Absurd, how Froward, how deaf unto Reason, and how little sense they have of their own Mortality, when once Passion has got the Upper hand of them in their little Quarrels, wherein they strive to get the Upper hand of

Meditation VIII.

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Meditation VIII.

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On the Lighting of a Candle at the Fire.

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Meditation VIII.

On the Lighting of a Candle at the Fire.

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Meditation VIII.

On the Lighting of a Candle at the Fire.