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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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We are advised of them, in the words of Elihu. That Holy Young man takes Notice, of people Crying in Affliction, and yet not Saved from Affliction. And he gives the Reason, Why the Great God, will not Remove Affliction, from some that are mourning and groaning under it. The Reason is, Because their Affliction do's not bring them to Repentance; And that Repentance is thus described, None saith, Where is God my Maker? q. d. They don't Remember, Who made them, and why He made them, nor consider the Errand which He that made them, sent them into the ⟨p. 111⟩World upon; and they don't Return to their Maker from those ways of Sin, for which they feel Him chastising of them.
We are advised of them, in the words of Elihu. That Holy Young man takes Notice, of people Crying in Affliction, and yet not Saved from Affliction. And he gives the Reason, Why the Great God, will not Remove Affliction, from some that are mourning and groaning under it. The Reason is, Because their Affliction do's not bring them to Repentance; And that Repentance is thus described, None saith, Where is God my Maker? q. d. They don't Remember, Who made them, and why He made them, nor consider the Errand which He that made them, sent them into the ⟨p. 111⟩World upon; and they don't Return to their Maker from those wayes of Sin, for which they feel Him chastising of them.
There now follows a Clause, that contains in it, a mighty Encouragement unto Repentance under Affliction; He giveth Songs in the Night. By the Night seems to be meant, A Time of Affliction: And by, the Songs given in this Night, seem to be meant, Matters of Satisfaction and Consolation, which God has provided. But for whom are they provided? Even for those that under Affliction, say, Where is God my Maker? i. e. That Seek Him, and Serve Him, as their Maker, and seriously Repent of all their Wanderings from Him, wherein men forget the Law of their Creation. In the Original 'tis, My Makers; A Notable Intimation of the Trinity in God Every Person in the Ever Adorable Trinity, concurred in the Making of man; and man owes Acknowledgements unto Every Person in the Trinity; yea, we do not Acknowledge our Maker, if the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, receives not an Homage from us.