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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 III. It will very Quickly come to One or t' other! We are very prone to Delay our Necessary Cares, to Accept Heaven, and Escape Hell, and make provision for Eternity; but our Time Delays no•; and the End of our Time delays not. It is an Admonition unto us, 1 Cor. 7. 29. The Time is Short. The Time of Life, what a poor, short Span is it? What is your Life, but a Vapour, that appeareth but a Little Time, and then Vanishes away! What you have to do for the Settlement of your Everlasting Estate, must Quickly be done, or it will Never be done. And see we not, that All Ages are Subject unto the Stroke of Death? How happy should I therein reckon my self, if the Death of my Daughter, might awaken you, my People, to consider Seriously with your selves, May not I Die too! ⟨p. 105⟩Am not I that am so much Older, as liable to the Stroke of Death? And what will become of me, if my Death find me unprovided for what comes after Death? Tis a Prodigy enough to amaze Heaven and Earth. We see People of all sorts Dying every Day, and yet People of all Sorts Living, as if they were never to Die! O ye Flock of the Lord; There are some of you, that will doubtless be in Heaven, within less than Seven Years. Every Time the Sun Sets, you may with a Soul rejoicing in the Hope of the Glory of God, say, Well, I am one Day nearer to my glorious Heaven than I was before. And there may be some of you, [Oh, Lord, can such a thing be heard without Horror of Soul!] that if you take no pains to avoid it, you may fear, that within a very Little while, you will be Turned into Hell, with the Wicked Forgetters of God? As the Demon said unto Soul, To Morrow shalt thou be with me! Oh, Ungodly Soul, Dost thou know where thou shalt be To Morrow? There is nothing then of so much Consequence, as This; To make sure of Heaven, and make hast in doing of it.
Consider III. It will very Quickly come to One or t' other! We are very prone to Delay our Necessary Cares, to Accept Heaven, and Escape Hell, and make provision for Eternity; but our Time Delayes no•; and the End of our Time delayes not. It is an Admonition unto us, 1 Cor. 7. 29. The Time is Short. The Time of Life, what a poor, short Span is it? What is your Life, but a Vapour, that appeareth but a Little Time, and then Vanishes away! What you have to do for the Settlement of your Everlasting Estate, must Quickly be done, or it will Never be done. And see we not, that All Ages are Subject unto the Stroke of Death? How happy should I therein reckon my self, if the Death of my Daughter, might awaken you, my People, to consider Seriously with your selves, May not I Dy too!