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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.
In general, The Door of Heaven, will not ⟨p. 106⟩be Opened, without the Key of Regeneration. You must be Born Twice before you Die Once, or else you Die Eternally. It is a dreadful Thing, that I am going to speak, but it is a certain one; O ye Unregenerates, If One of You were in Heaven, you could not bear to be there; yea, you would make Hell of it, by your being there.
In general, The Door of Heaven, will not ⟨p. 106⟩be Opened, without the Key of Regeneration. You must be Born Twice before you Dy Once, or else you Dy Eternally. It is a dreadful Thing, that I am going to speak, but it is a certain one; O ye Unregenerates, If One of You were in Heaven, you could not bear to be there; yea, you would make Hell of it, by your being there.
But more particularly:
First; A CHRIST, A CHRIST, for a Soul in Peril! make sure of Christ, and you make sure of Heaven. We are thus instructed, 1 Joh. 5. 12. He that hath the Son, hath Life: and, Joh. 3. 36. He that Believeth on the Son, hath Everlasting Life. Oh, Desire of Christ, and Rely on Christ, for to be conducted unto Heaven, Heaven is the Purchased Possession. Receive the Christ who has Purchased it, and you have it. Resign your selves up unto Christ; Consent unto His Executing all His Offices, of Prophet, and Priest, and King. Renounce all Dependence on any Righteousness but His. And Submit unto all the Saving Operations of His Grace upon you. Tis to Secure Heaven!