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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.
Most certainly, 'Tis Good for us to be made Acquainted with the Concerns of Experimental Religion. Well; Our Night comes, that we may see the bright Stars of Christianity. Our God will shut us up in the Dark, that He may cure our Madness. It was the Song; Psal 94. 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy Law. Accordingly. Let it be Our Song in the Night; God is now making me a better informed Christian than ever I was in my Life; God is making me more thoroughly to understand, that Christ is precious, and Sin is odious, and my Heart is Deceitful, and all things here below are but Vanities and Vexations.
Most certainly, 'Tis Good for us to be made Acquainted with the Concerns of Experimental Religion. Well; Our Night comes, that we may see the bright Stars of Christianity. Our God will shut us up in the Dark, that He may cure our Madness. It was the Song; Psal 94. 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy Law. Accordingly. Let it be Our Song in the Night; God is now making me a better informed Christian than ever I was in my Life; God is making me more thorowly to understand, that Christ is precious, and Sin is odious, and my Heart is Deceitful, and all things here below are but Vanities and Vexations.
Most certainly, Tis Good for us to be Restrained from Sin, and have Sin Destroyed ⟨p. 129⟩in us. Well; our Night comes upon us, to keep us from the Works of Darkness. God sends our Night upon us, to make us Children of the Day. It was the Song; Isa. 27. 9. By this will Iniquity be purged, and all the Fruit is to take away sin. Accordingly, let it be our Song in the Night; God is now making my Sin bitter to me; All this Bitterness comes upon me, that so my Sin may be the more Embittered. God Kills my little Delights; Tis that my Sin may dye, and that my soul may live.