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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.
and if you do not speedily turn from Darkness to Light, (which is the very nature and notion of Conversion,) you are not far ⟨p. 137⟩from an Eternal Night. There are Chains of Everlasting Darkness reserved for the Wicked; and they are hastening to a State, wherein we are told, Psal. 49. 19. They shall never see Light. Be persuaded, O Benighted Sinners; Knowing the Terror of the Lord, be persuaded, for to make haste into the State wherein you may Sing the Songs of the Lord; Be persuaded immediately to Hear that Call of the Lord Jesus Christ, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the Dead, and Christ shall give thee Light.
and if you do not speedily turn from Darkness to Light, (which is the very nature and notion of Conversion,) you are not far ⟨p. 137⟩from an Eternal Night. There are Chains of Everlasting Darkness reserved for the Wicked; and they are hastening to a State, wherein we are told, Psal. 49. 19. They shall never see Light. Be perswaded, O Benighted Sinners; Knowing the Terror of the Lord, be perswaded, for to make haste into the State wherein you may Sing the Songs of the Lord; Be perswaded immediately to Hear that Call of the Lord Jesus Christ, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the Dead, and Christ shall give thee Light.
III. Why should we not maintain a Distinct Communion with each of the Three Persons in the Trinity, when we consider our Maker as Giving Songs unto us in our Night? The Night would be astonishingly Illustrated, and Shine as the very Day, if our Songs in the Night might very distinctly apprehend a Trinity of Persons, in our Maker. But, Oh! Lord, how dark is the Night of thy Wrath upon the English Nation wherein Arian, Socinian, Deistical Blasphemies of the Trinity, are uttered so commonly, so openly! Surely, through the Wrath of the Lord of Hosts, the Land is darkened, in those Heresies and Blasphemies. That which