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

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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.

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:140p. 84–85

Secondly; But is there not an Heavenly Place, wherein they are to be made partakers of this Heavenly State? Yea, such a Place there is. We read, 2 Cor 5. 1. We have an House not made with Hands, Eternal in the Heavens. If there be an House for us in Heaven, there must needs be a Place for us. There are to be Bodies in Heaven; Yea, many Bodies are already there. But Bodies require Place. It is non-sense to say, That Heaven is a State, without a Place. ⟨p. 85⟩But then, Where is the Place? I shall at present, say only two or three things concerning it.

:141p. 85

First; The Place of Heaven, is, where our Lord JESUS CHRIST resides, in His Glorious Manhood, Ah, Lord, Thou wilt make Heaven, wherever thou comest! It is the periphrasis of Heaven, Joh 12. 26 Where I am▪ there shall my Servant be; That is to say, He shall be in Heaven. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST is the very Heaven of Heaven it self. Let the Sun be on what side of the Globe it will, it will be Day there. And it will be Heaven, Wherever our Exalted JESUS comes. It is the Lord JESUS CHRIST, that is the Tree of Life, in the midst of that paradise; as the famous Tree so called at the Beginning, was, in the midst of the Innocent stand of Eden: And indeed, wherever He is, His being there, is enough to make Paradise.

:142p. 85–86

Secondly; Those bright Regions, that are the Place of Heaven, are the very best Rooms of the whose Creation, though the Upper Stories of is. Heaven for this cause is called, The Throne of God. We read, Psal. 11 4. The Lords Throne is in Heaven. Certainly, The Throne of God must be the ⟨p. 86⟩

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