N00941:142
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.
3 18 Beholding, the Glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory, as by the spirit of the Lord. The Understandings of the Glorified, will be mightily Enlarged and Enlightened. Their Affections will be thoroughly rectified and purified. The Image of God will be gloriously imprinted on them. The Spirit of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, hath a marvellous possession of them that are in Heaven. He makes them as like unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, as it is possible. He Inspires them with an Holy Resolution, to be for Him and […] for another; He Quickens them to Love Him, with all their Heart, and Soul and Mind. He Raises them here withal unto those Privileges of Splendour and Vigour, and Spiritually, and Immortality, and Incorruptibility, which will ⟨p. 84⟩make them Resemble Him, Exceedingly, O all that are in Heaven, it may be said, Lord, As thou art, so are they, each one Resembling the Children of the Eternal King! It is said, Rom 8. 29. God hath predestinated us, to be conformed unto the Image of His Son. In Heaven […] brought about! And there, He is perpetually, with an Eternal Variety▪ giving them admirable Testimonies of His Good Will to them; and they, both Receive these Testimonies with Raptures of Joy, and Return Testimonies of their own Holy Dedication to Him. Thu• are they in Heaven Eternally Entertained, with Fullness of Joy in the presence of God, and pleasures at His Right hand for ever more. This is the Heavenly State▪
3 18 Beholding, the Glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory, as by the spirit of the Lord. The Understandings of the Glorified, will be mightily Enlarged and Enlightned. Their Affections will be thorowly rectified and purified. The Image of God will be gloriously imprinted on them. The Spirit of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, hath a marvellous possession of them that are in Heaven. He makes them as like unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, as it is possible. He Inspires them with an Holy Resolution, to be for Him and 〈…〉 for another; He Quickens them to Love Him, with all their Heart, and Soul and Mind. He Raises them here withal unto those Privi•edges of Splendor and Vigour, and Spiritually, and Immortality, and Incorruptibality, which will