Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…

Name: Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703

[6], 222 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo) · 46k words · Evans 1127

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Appendix. THE Living Redeemer,In the Balance against a Dying Relat…: Appendix. THE Living Redeemer,In the Balance against a Dying Relation.Appendix. THE Living Redeemer,In the Ballance against a Dying Relat…: Appendix. THE Living Redeemer,In the Ballance against a Dying Relation.

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.

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:235p. 143–144

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.

:236p. 144–145

An unknown Penman hath in a curious Poem, drawn up for us, a Real and Famous History, of the unusual Calamities, and amazing Deliverances, that befell an Excellent Person in Arabia, some Thousands of years ago. Some Conferences between this Renowned person, and some of his Friends that gave him a Friendly Visit, in his Calamities, are in this Book related. Their unkind Censures of him, and bitter Speeches to him, were not the least part of his Calamities; but in this Chapter we have something of his Vindication. ⟨p. 145⟩One thing in their Charge upon him, was, That he knew not God: & now, to vindicate himself against so unjust a Charge, he declares his Belief, not only in GOD, but also in His promised Messiah, by whom he Expected a Resurrection from the Dead.

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