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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
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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.
Light arising in DARKNESS.
Preached, 9 d. 12 m. 1700. My Son Samuel then Lying Dead in my House, and carried the Day following to the House appointed for all the Living.
JOB XXXV. 10. GOD, My Master,—Giveth Songs in the Right.
I find a Minister of God long since thus called upon; [Isa. 21 11] Watchman, What of the Night? Watchman what of the Night? q. d. What Advice hast thou to give us, concerning the Night that is now come upon us? What is our Condition in this Night of our Calamity? The People of God, tho' ⟨p. 110⟩they be the Children of Light, yet see many a Dark and Sad Night of Affliction. But if any of them now call upon me, Watchman, What of the Night? Watchman, What of the Night? What have you to tell us, about the Night which we so often fall into? Truly, Sirs, I am to tell you, That our Night is not so Dark and Sad, as it seems to be. There are sweet Songs of Satisfaction and Consolations, which God our Maker has provided for us. Be the Night never so Black, we are not unfurnished with Songs of Satisfaction and Consolation, for to sweeten it.