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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.
A Tried FAITH, Offering an ONLY SON.A Tryed FAITH, Offering an ONLY SON.
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.
1. The Occasion of the Trial. We read Gen. 22. 1. God did tempt Abraham. How can Temptation be ascribed unto God• There are two sorts of sit. There is; ⟨p. 4⟩Tentatio probationis, and there is, Tentatio perditionis. Indeed it is also where said, No man is tempted of God, that is as to a Temptation of perdition God never does dispose or incline or seduce, any man to Sin against his Maker, or to wound his own Soul. But then there is a Temptation of Probation; a Temptation wherein God proves what men are, proves whether they are the metal they seem to be, proves whether they can do what they pretend unto. This is from God.
1. The Occasion of the Tryal. We read Gen. 22. 1. God did tempt Abraham. How can Temptation be ascribed unto God• There are two sorts of sit. There is; ⟨p. 4⟩Tentatio probationis, and there is, Tentatio perditionis. Indeed it is also where said, No man is tempted of God, that is as to a Temptation of perdition God never does dispose or incline or seduce, any man to Sin against his Maker, or to wound his own Soul. But then there is a Temptation of Probation; a Temptation wherein God proves what men are, proves whether they are the metal they seem to be, proves whether they can do what they pretend unto. This is from God.
The Trial of Abraham was by an Extraordinary Command. There is no Injustice in it, that the Supreme Law giver of the World, whose Will is the highest Rule o• what is Right, should give new Laws to m•n as he pleases; and that he should alter and repeal any former Laws that he hath given to them. Abraham understood well, That the Law giver who does require that we do no Murder, has the prerogative to Declare also What is Murder. He understood, That the Sovereign Arbiter of Life and Death, may order who among the Children of men shall Die, and when and how, as it pleases Him. […] man ask, How Abraham […]