Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…

Name: Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703

[6], 222 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo) · 46k words · Evans 1127

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Light arising in DARKNESS.

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.

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:196p. 117

In one Word; It is to give us Opportunity for our Songs in the Night. God will Glorify Himself, in and by, every Night of Affliction that He sends upon us. And God is never more Glorified, than by having the Graces of His Children Exercised in their Affliction. But the Graces of good men are Exercised, in their Singing the Songs that God has given them. This therefore brings us to a further Entertainment.

In one Word; It is to give us Opportunity for our Songs in the Night. God will Glorify Himself, in and by, every Night of Affliction that He sends upon us. And God is never more Glorified, than by haveing the Graces of His Children Exercised in their Affliction. But the Graces of good men are Exercised, in their Singing the Songs that God has given them. This therefore brings us to a further Entertainment.

:197p. 117–118¶2

II There are glorious Matters of Satisfaction and Consolation, which the Children of God are to make their Songs in the Night of their Affliction. There are the Songs of Zion, which are prepared by God ⟨p. 118⟩for the Sons of Zion; and some of them are peculiarly calculated for the Night. As it was said, Psal. 119. 54. Thy Statutes have been my Songs, in the House of my Pilgrimage: Thus, the Statutes of God inform us, of matters for our Songs, in the Night of our Affliction. Davids Harp never founded better than in the Night and upon the Water. More particularly.

:198p. 118–119

First, It is a Song to be Sung in the Night of our Affliction, That the Great God is the First Cause of our Affliction. This was the Song of that Excellent man,

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