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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
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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.
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.
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⟩most Glorious Place that can be! Of Canaan it is said, It was the Glory of all Lands, Much more, may it be said of Heaven. Yea, Tis the Heaven of Heavens, where our Lord JESUS CHRIST fits upon His Throne that is. The most Excellent Heaven of all Indeed, the Heaven of the Blessed, contains vast Regions in it: There are many Mansions, yea, there are many Regions, in the Heavenly Country. The Earth, although it be above one and twenty Thousand Miles in Circumference, is but a small Point, if compared unto Heaven; perhaps 'twould be Invisible to one Stationed there.
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⟩