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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.
Once more; The Power of God, must be our Song in the Night. This was the Song of that Great Saint in his Affliction; Job 42. 2. I know, that thou canst do every thing. What can better be Realized in the Night, than the Power of that Almighty Creator, who first of all divided the Light from the Darkness, and called the Darkness Night. He that could Raise a Job from a Dunghill; He that could Raise an Hezekiah from a Sick-bed; He that could give unto an Amaziah, much more than all that he Lost; What can't He do for us, in the Night that is come upon us? Our Song should now be of this Purport, That Powerful God, who hath caused my Sun to go down at Noon, can cause it also to Rise at midnight with me. My God can make me glad, according to the Days wherein He hath afflicted me, and the Years wherein ⟨p. 122⟩I have seen Evil. Be my Case never so Dark, the Lord my God can Enlighten my Darkness. Be my Case never so Hard, there is nothing too Hard for the Lord. Be I brought never so Low, the Lord that Raises the Dead, can Raise me up.
Once more; The Power of God, must be our Song in the Night. This was the Song of that Great Saint in his Affliction; Job 42. 2. I know, that thou canst do every thing. What can better be Realized in the Night, than the Power of that Almighty Creator, who first of all divided the Light from the Darkness, and called the Darkness Night. He that could Raise a Job from a Dunghil; He that could Raise an Hezekiah from a Sick-bed; He that could give unto an Amaziah, much more than all that he Lost; What can't He do for us, in the Night that is come upon us? Our Song should now be of this Purport, That Powerful God, who hath caused my Sun to go down at Noon, can cause it also to Rise at midnight with me. My God can make me glad, according to the Dayes wherein He hath afflicted me, and the Years wherein ⟨p. 122⟩I have seen Evil. Be my Case never so Dark, the Lord my God can Enlighten my Darkness. Be my Case never so Hard, there is nothing too Hard for the Lord. Be I brought never so Low, the Lord that Raises the Dead, can Raise me up.