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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.
2. We have the Difficulty of the Trial. It was, I suppose, the most Exquisite one that ever befell a mortal man: will you hear it, Gen. 22 2. Take now thy Son, thy only Son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the Land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering, upon one of the Mountains, which I will tell thee of. To part with our Children is oftentimes a hard thing. We read of a Mother when she saw her Son a dying, A Sword passed through her Soul. Behold here a Thousand Swords making their passes all at once. Every syllable strikes like a Dagger into the Heart of as Tender a Father as any under Heaven Take now thy Son! What? will Nothing but a Son do! Well, but a great while hence? No, Take now thy Son, But, Lord He is All have! ⟨p. 7⟩Thy only Son shall go. But, Lord, Thou seest how fond I am of him; and that I have abundance of Reason for my Fondness. Its all one for that, Go take the Son whom thou Lovest. Well, but if he must be dispatched, let it be quickly: No; Thou shalt have the time to feel thy Distress, it shall be two or three Days Time ere it be done; wherefore get thee into the Land of Moriah. Well! If he must then Die, Lord, take him in the usual way. No, offer him there thy self, with thine own hand. Nature and Grace would both concur to put in Objections against this. Nature would plead; What? a Son? and for a Father thus to Exterminate his own Son; how unnatural is this, how unparalleled is this, how Barbarous will all mankind account me for it? Come to Grace; What? a Son for which I have Believed so long! if he be lost, there comes no Christ into the World! a Son on whom so many Families of the Earth depend for a Blessing; must he go down to the pit. Astonishments, where are you, to see a Friend of God thus called upon! But after all,
2. We have the Difficulty of the Tryal. It was, I suppose, the most Exquisite one that ever befell a mortal man: will you hear it, Gen. 22 2. Take now thy Son, thy only Son, Isaac, whom thon lovest, and get thee into the Land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering, upon one of the Mountains, which I will tell thee of. To part with our Children is oftentimes a hard thing. We read of a Mother when she saw her Son a dying, A Sword passed through her Soul. Behold here a Thousand Swords making their passes all at once. Every syllable strikes like a Dagger into the Heart of as Tender a Father as any under Heaven Take now thy Son! What? will Nothing but a Son do! Well, but a great while hence? No, Take now thy Son, But, Lord He is All have!