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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.
Preached, when my SON Lay a Dying, and within a few Hours did actually Dy.
Job XIX. 25. I know that my Redeemer Liveth.
When the famous Luther, was under great Sorrows, he wrote once upon his Table in Great Letters, that word, VIVIT, or, HE LIVETH. ⟨p. 144⟩A Friend, that saw the word, Enquired, Who? and he so answered the Enquiry, CHRIST LIVETH! And if He did not, I should not my self one minute longer desire to Live. Well thought, and like a Christian! It is a Thought which I am this Day to manage among you; and if some Dying Circumstances in my own Family do Quicken me to manage it, with a more Lively Inculcation, 'twill be some Ease to me, that my Sorrow proves in any measure a Service unto others, and that my Ministry receives any Advantage by my Affliction.
WHen the famous Luther, was under great Sorrows, he wrote once upon his Table in Great Letters, that word, VIVIT, or, HE LIVETH. ⟨p. 144⟩A Friend, that saw the word, Enquired, Who? and he so answered the Enquiry, CHRIST LIVETH! And if He did not, I should not my self one minute longer desire to Live. Well thought, and like a Christian! It is a Thought which I am this Day to manage among you; and if some Dying Circumstances in my own Family do Quicken me to manage it, with a more Lively Inculcation, 'twill be some Ease to me, that my Sorrow proves in any measure a Service unto others, and that my Ministry receives any Advantage by my Affliction.