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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.
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.
The Motto inscribed on the Grave Stone.
YOUR BONES SHALL FLOURISH LIKE AN HERB.
My Resolution.
Writ and Sung, on this Occasion. Job I. 21. Naked came I out of my Mothers womb, and Naked shall I return thither The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken a way; Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
I Stripped of Earthly Comforts am: Stripped let me duly Mourn: Naked from Earth at first I came; And Naked I return.
I Strip't of Earthly Comforts am: Strip't let me duely Mourn: Naked from Earth at first I came; And Naked I return.