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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.
3. We have his Behaviour under it. God speaks, and he does it without more […] ⟨p. 8⟩We read, Gen. 22. 3. Abraham rose early, and went about it. There is many a man, the God of Heaven says to him, Come, and take my Son, that HE may save thy Soul! but the man puts it off till another Day or Week: whenas Abraham when God says, Go, let thy Son dye, and suffer thou an horrible wound in thy Soul! He goes away immediately about it. Abraham offers his Son. The will for the Deed, was Gods way of trying his People from the beginning. The Thing was accepted, though prevented. Mark, by the way, that some Hearty and Serious purposes are performances in the sight of God. On the one side, you that have a purpose of Sin against God, may to your cost find that very purpose to be the Sin. Adultery some commit with a thought! there is Murder with a Thought, and Stealing with a Thought, and Lying with a Thought. The Thought of the Foolishness may be so managed, as to be the •illy it self. Thus on the other side; you that have a purpose to serve the God of Heaven, God may account it as a performance. When David sat in his house and Thought, What shalt I do for the House of God? God sent that message to him, Well, David, I take it as if really ⟨p. 9⟩done; I will build thee an House. Indeed if men only Purpose to Believe and Repent hereafter, God will never take that for done, for that must be actually and presently done. But if a man has his Heart sincerely set for God and Christ, and thereupon he has many a purpose for God working & formed in his Heart, suppose the Lord may deny that man an Opportunity to do what he purposed, yet he will reward that Purpose gloriously. If a man sincerely intend such or such a Service for God, he shall not wholly lose the Reward of that Service, merely because God has denied him an Opportunity for the prosecution of it. God Rewards us according to our Inclinations, & Resolutions, and not according to our Opportunities.
3. We have his Behaviour under it. God speaks, and he does it without more 〈…〉 ⟨p. 8⟩