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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.
But, finally, That which will make our Night, as Dark as the Shadow of Death it self, will be, If God withdraw the Light of His Countenance from us, and withhold from us the Influences of His Grace, which are needful to Support and Quicken us. God is ⟨p. 117⟩Light; and the Gracious Presence of God, would make Day for His People at Midnight. But if God hide his Face, then, then Indeed we have a dismal Night of it. We then truly, Walk in Darkness, and see no Light. Our Groans may then, if ever, be those; Psal. 88. 6. 7. Lord, Thou hast laid me in Darkness; Thy wrath lieth hard upon me.
But, finally, That which will make our Night, as Dark as the Shadow of Death it self, will be, If God withdraw the Light of His Countenance from us, and withold from us the Influences of His Grace, which are needful to Support and Quicken us. God is ⟨p. 117⟩Light; and the Gracious Presence of God, would make Day for His People at Midnight. But if God hide his Face, then, then Indeed we have a dismal Night of it. We then truly, Walk in Darkness, and see no Light. Our Groans may then, if ever, be those; Psal. 88. 6. 7. Lord, Thou hast laid me in Darkness; Thy wrath lieth hard upon me.
We may Enquire,
Next; Why the Holy God, will bring Night of Affliction upon any of His Children?