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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:146p. 87

Tis to be thus Answered

:147p. 87–89

First, The ANGELS of the Lord Jesus Christ, Revisit Heaven. when they have dispatched the particular Services which they have to do for Him on Earth. The Angels are the Natives of Heaven; those Morning Stars have their own Habitation there; those Sons of God are Lodged in that their Fathers House. Where the […] ⟨p. 88⟩of our Lord JESUS CHRIST is, there His Angels are; Thousands of Thousands do Minister unto Him, Ten Thousand times Ten Thousand stand before Him. Those Angels are the Princes of the Celestial Court; who in all their bright Order Encompass the Throne of the Lord Jesus Christ, and pay their humblest▪ Homage unto Him. We read, Psal 103 19. 20. The Lord hath, prepared His Th•one in the Heavens; And it follows, O ye Angles, mighty in Strength, you do His Commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His Word. Those Heavenly Spirits do come down from Heaven; even from our Lord JESUS CHRIST in Heaven; when H• […] Affairs upon Earth to Employ them in As, when a Message was to be dispatched from Heaven, unto Daniel, that Lovely man of God: We read, Dan 9 21 The Angel Gabriel must fly Swift's down unto him▪ And when those Attain and Errands are done, these Heavenly Spirits return to their former Stations, where they always b• h•ll the Face of God in Heaven. Thus, we read, Z•ch, 1 11 The Angels appear before God, with this Account, We have walked to and fro through' the Earth, and behold Things are ⟨p. 89⟩so and so: They make Report, how they have discharged the Duty, they were sent upon

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