Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…

Name: Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703

[6], 222 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo) · 46k words · Evans 1127

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Good news FROM A Far Country: For the Solace of them, whose Friends…: Good news FROM A Far Country: For the Solace of them, whose Friends are gone thither.

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.

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:135p. 79–80

First, In Heaven there is granted a very Immediate Sight of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. God in His Everlasting Decree, that a Man should be personally, United ⟨p. 80⟩unto His own Second Person forever, did also Decree, that certain other men should be given unto this most Glorious Man, to be with Hi Angels, the Spectators and partakers of His Glory. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST now mentions […], as the main point of Heaven; Joh.17. 24. Father, I will, that they whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my Glory, which thou hast given me.

First, In Heaven there is granted a very Immediate Sight of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. God in His Everlasting Decree, that a Man should be personally, United ⟨p. 80⟩unto His own Second Person forever, did also Decree, that certain other men should be given unto this most Glorious Man, to be with Hi Angels, the Spectators and partakers of His Glory. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST now mentions 〈…〉, as the main point of Heaven; Joh.17. 24. Father, I will, that they whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my Glory, which thou hast given me.

:136p. 80–81

In Heaven then, they see that Man, who is God as well as man, and in whom there dwells the Fullness of the Godhead Bodily a They see that Man, who once appeared in the Form of a Servant, but now is Highly Exalted with a Name about every Name: They see that Man, who Sits down at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High, Swaying the Sceptre of the Universe. They see Him, with Eternal Transport! And as it is in the Enjoying of the Light, the Enjoyment that one man has of it, hinders not, abates not the Enjoyment of another; So in this Inheritance of the Saints in Light, the Sight of the altogether Lovely Lord JESUS CHRIST Enjoyed by one Saint, is no Hindrance to the Sight which

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