N00941:11
Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives. Work accommodated unto the service of all that are in any affliction; but very particularly such as are afflicted with the loss of their consorts or children. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
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.
Let him then know, That the Author under Calamity, by Morto••• lately befalling him Expressed unto some of his Friends, A Desire, That whatever Calamity befalls him in this present Evil World, the Lord Jesus Christ may have some Revenues of Glory and Service out […] A Desire wherein a most unworthy […] hath hitherto been signally gratified under his Calamities; A Desire herein […] might be always satisfied, it would […] way, […] take away from them […] of Calamities.
Let him then know, That the Author under Calamity, by Morto••• lately befalling him Express'd unto some of his Friends, A Desire, That whatever Calamity befalls him in this present Evil World, the Lord Jesus Christ may have some Revenues of Glory and Service out 〈…〉 A Desire wherein a most unworthy 〈…〉 hath hitherto been sig•ally gratified under his Calamities; A Desire herein 〈…〉 might be always satisfied, it would 〈…〉 way, 〈…〉 take away from them 〈…〉 ofCalamities.
[…] most […] Calamities […] has been the Death of […] which was at length follow. […] more grievous Death of his […] Comfort, the Mother of them. […] be•el him, though ⟨image ?⟩sometimes they fell out, very near the Lords Day, he still judged it might some what Glorify the Lord, if he should never for the sake or grief hereof, Omit any of the usual Offerings of the Lord, on the Lords Day, in the Assemblies of His People, to whom he has been a Servant. […] his Thoughts, after some sort compe••ed and confined unto the Subjects of Meditation, which were most likely to rescue him from the Distempers that Flesh and Blood often indulge on such afflictive occasions, he still apprehended, that it might not be unedifying unto his Flock, to be Entertained with the same things that had counselled of comforted him, in the multitude of […] thoughts within him.