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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.
Our Lord JESUS CHRIST has brought us into a New Covenant: The New Covenant hath in it very great and precious Promises. These Promises are to be our Songs in the Night. Is it not promised? The Lord will not suffer us to be Tempted above what we are Able. Is it not promised? All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; unto such as keep His Covenant, and His Testimonies. Is it not promised? They that Sow in Tears, shall Reap in Joy; And, Light is ⟨p. 126⟩sown for the Righteous, and Joy for the Upright in Heart. These, even such as These, are to be our Songs, all the Night long.
Our Lord JESUS CHRIST has brought us into a New Covenant: The New Covenant hath in it very great and precious Promises. These Promises are to be our Songs in the Night. Is it not promised? The Lord will not suffer us to be Tempted above what we are Able. Is it not promised? All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; unto such as keep His Covenant, and His Testimonies. Is it not promised? They that Sow in Tears, shall Reap in Joy; And, Light is ⟨p. 126⟩sown for the Righteous, and Joy for the Uprigh in Heart. These, even such as These, are to be our Songs, all the Night long.
The Good and Gain of our Affliction, is a Song that hath considerable matters of Consolation in it. Let us make a brief Descant upon some of them.
First, We may make it our Song in the Night; That our God Loves us too well, to burt us in the worst that He shall do unto us. We have such a Song prepared for us; Heb 12 6. Whom the Lord Loveth, He Chasteneth. What are the most afflicting Dispensations, but Fatherly, but Medicinal? When we can sigh perhaps with the Psalmist, I am afflicted very much: Yet let us also Sing, In whose Hands am I all this while? In the Hands of the best Friend that ever I had! In the Hands of a God, that hath Loved me very much; a God that hath for me, an Everlasting Love, and is now but Executing for me the purposes of His Love. Our Afflictions may be with a Song; Why, Because they are without a Sting. The Curse and the Sting of all our Afflictions, hath fallen upon our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Day when God laid upon Him the Iniquity of us all, and when He cried out,