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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.
Of these things let us now take our Observation.
1. The Holy GOD, the Father of Lights, may bring upon His Children, even upon His dearest Children, a Night of much Affliction Several points of useful Meditation, occur in this Proposition.
As now;
First; A Time of Affliction, is very suitably called, A night of Affliction. The Trouble and the Terror, which the Night brings with it, is but a Shadow of That which by Affliction comes upon us. When God brings a Time of Affliction upon men, it is thus Expressed, Job 34. 25. He overturns them in the Night. When God is addressed with our Devotion in a Time of Affliction, it is thus Expressed, Isa. 26. 9. ⟨p. 113⟩With my Soul have I desired thee in the Night. Yea, All the Bible over, we have the Name of Darkness put upon Affliction; As on the other side, The Day, and, The Light, are the Metaphors of Prosperity. Christian, when the Night arrives, as it will still once is Four and Twenty Hours, 'twill do thee to Harm to think, It won't be long before a succession of some dark Affliction arrives unto me. Again; When a Night of Affliction overtakes us, it is by the Providence of the Holy GOD. It was of old said, if He give Quietness, who can make Trouble? If there be any Trouble upon us, it could not have come without His Direction. Take it for a Time of Affliction, as well as more Literally, and still we must say,