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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.
A Tried FAITH, Offering an ONLY SON.A Tryed FAITH, Offering an ONLY SON.
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.
Preached, 2d. 2m. 1693. A. M. My (then) only Son having died in the Night before.
It is written; Heb. XI. 17. By Faith Abraham when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten Son.
It is written; Heb. XI. 17. By Faith Abraham when he was tryed, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten Son.
Some of the Ancients Report unto us, That beholding sometimes the Picture of Abraham, going to stab and burn his only Son as a Sacrifice, they never could behold it without ⟨p. 2⟩falling into Tears. I was now going to say. Tears, where are you? But something better I am to call for. There is no concern of our Inward or Outward man, wherein our Faith is not necessary, serviceable, advantageous. A good mans Faith, is a good mans Life. It is a Sentence of the Old, often repeated in the New- Testament: The Just by Faith shall live. How? But by his Faith. Behold our Inward man: By Faith 'tis that we are to receive the gift of Righteousness through Jesus Christ: By Faith it is that we get power to become the Children of God: By Faith it is that our hearts are purified: By Faith it is that we have a Victory over the World: And by Faith it is that we come to the End of our Faith, the Salvation of our Souls. Behold our Outward man! By Faith it is that we are to bear all that God lays upon us; and by Faith it is that we are to gain by what we bear. Nothing is to be done without Faith; No Living without it, nor any Dying without it. Admire not that it is in this Chapter so very admirably recommended unto us. It was a very true assertion of a Great Reformer, that the meanest action done in