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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Good news FROM A Far Country: For the Solace of them, whose Friends… › APPLICATION.
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.
But may this Consolation be applied unto ⟨p. 97⟩the Death of our Infants? Yes. Why not? The Lord said of old in His Gracious Covenant; I will be a God unto thee, and unto thy Children. The Infants of the Faithful, were in the Days of the Old Testament, the Heirs of the Promise; Hence the Seal of that promise was then by the Divine Appointment used upon Infants, a Seal that God Accepted them as Righteous through' the Messiah which their Parents believed on. But I argue; If the Infant. of the Faithful, were in the Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament, they are so still under the New. For, where, or when, are they Cut off? Or, have we lost the privileges of the New Covenant, by being under the New Testament It cannot be imagined. Well then; If God be a God unto our Infant Children, What will fold low? I tell you, O my Brethren in Adversity, Nothing less than a Glorious Heaven will follow. Wonder, Oh, wonder at the Grace of God, Ensured unto them, in those words of His Apostle; Heb. 11. 16. God is not Ashamed to be called, Their God, for He hath prepared for them a City. When they go from us, they go to that Heavenly City! Is it not ⟨p. 98⟩Expressly said of our Infants, They are Holy? We may then be sure, That at their Departure hence, they go to be among the Holy. And where is that, but in Heaven that High and Holy Place? Is it no […] said of our Infants, That they have their Angels in Heaven? We may then be sure, That at their Departure hence, Their Angels will carry them […] to Heaven […] not our Lord Jesus Christ expressly said of some Infants; of such is […] Kingdom of Heaven? And no […], here are more Spirits of Infants in Heaven, than Saints of any other Age.
But may this Consolation be applied unto ⟨p. 97⟩the Death of our Infants? Yes. Why not? The Lord said of old in His Gracious Covenant; I will be a God unto thee, and unto thy Children. The Infants of the Faithful, were in the Dayes of the Old Testament, the Heirs of the Promise; Hence the Seal of that promise was then by the Divine Appointment used upon Infants, a Seal that God Accepted them as Righteous thro' the Messiah which their Parents believed on. But I argue; If the Infant. of the Faithful, were in the Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament, they are so still under the New. For, where, or when, are they Cut off? Or, have we lost the priviledges of the New Covenant, by being under the New Testament It cannot be imagined. Well then; If God be a God unto our Infant Children, What will fold low? I tell you, O my Brethren in Adversity, Nothing less than a Glorious Heaven will follow. Wonder, Oh, wonder at the Grace of God, Ensured unto them, in those words of His Apostle;