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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.
Consider II. If you miss of the Glorious Heaven there is an Horrible Hell that you cannot miss The Disjunction is unalterable; Mat. 25. 46. Everlasting Punishment, if not Life Eternal. To Lose Heaven! Oh, what a Loss is That? We never met with ⟨p. 103⟩any Loss like to That: The Gain of all this World would not countervail the prodigious Loss. What a terrible Regret will fill you, Think, O my Neighbours, if you should see Heaven for ever barred upon you, and all those doleful Gries, Lord, Lord, Open to me! answered with nothing but those Fiery Thunders from the Lord Jesus Christ, Be gone Wretch, Be gone from Heaven, and Hope for ever, I know thee not! For what O egregious Fool, for what wilt thou incur this horrid Loss? For what, but a few gaudy Trifles, and a few nasty pleasures, which were but for a very little Season? But be it known unto you. That if you Lose Heaven, you will Find Hell instead thereof. As Moses did set those two things before his Congregation, saying, I call Heaven and Earth to record, that, I have set before you Life and Death; Even so, I call Heaven and Earth to record, that Heaven and Hell have been set before you. And you are now faithfully, and fervently, and solemnly warned from God, That if you slight Heaven, you must look to Depart accursed unto Everlasting Fire, with the Devil and his Angels; If you slight Heaven, you must look to be chased ⟨p. 104⟩and cast into the miseries of a Fire that never shall be quenched. Either Embrace the Heaven offered unto you, or else Resolve to go down unto the Place of Dragons, and the Torments, whereof the Smoke shall ascend for ever and ever. We may not conceal from you, this Warning of God; what we declare, The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Consider II. If you miss of the Glorious Heaven there is an Horrible Hell that you cannot miss The Disjunction is unal•erable; Mat. 25. 46. Everlasting Punishment, if not Life Eternal. To Lose Heaven! Oh, what a Loss is That? We never met with ⟨p. 103⟩