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

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, ⟨p. 127⟩I am the man that hath seen Affliction by the Rod of His wrath. We may Sing under […] our Disgrace; My Lord Jesus Christ we despised and rejected of men We may Sing under all our Straits; My Lord Jesus Christ had not an House where to lay His Head. We may Sing under all our Pains; My Lord Jesus Christ was feeble and sorely broken. Under all our Temptations, We may Sing, My Lord Jesus Christ was in all points Tempted like unto us; except only in sin. We may behold our Lord Jesus Christ, as by all these His Expiatory Sufferings, taking upon Himself the Vengeance of God, which was due to us for our Sins; & hence it comes to pass that there is not that vengeance now to Embitter our Sufferings. Our Lord Jesus Christ hath Reconciled God unto us; and so none of His Dispensations are now the Blows of an Enemy and a Revenger. It may then be our Song; Lord, I will praise thee; for though thou wast Angry with me, thine Anger is turned away; and this doth comfort me, even when thou dost Afflict me. My Lord JESUS CHRIST hath given me to stand before God, in His perfect and spotless Righteousness, ⟨p. 128⟩and no Evil shall happen to the Righteous.

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,