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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DOCTRINE. We have a Glorious Redeemer, and whatever be our Deadly Circumstances, we may with wonderful Satisfaction and Consolation know That this Redeemer Lives.

:240p. 147

There are Two Wells of Salvation, to be now Set open before you, from whence, O ye Faithful, you may now Draw with Joy; yea, With joy unspeakable, and full of Glory!

:241p. 147–148¶1

1. We may undoubtedly Know, That our Lord JESUS CHRIST is the Redeemer of His people. At the Nativity of our Lord, these were the Good Tidings of Great Joy, which the Angels of the Heavenly Host, brought unto us, Luk 2. 10. […] you there is born a Saviour. So […] is […] Greek word used there; that […] ⟨p. 148⟩Ancient Romans, thought it could not be sufficiently translated into another Language. It a magnum ut Latino uno verbo Exprimi nonpossit, saith Tully himself. Perhaps the word, Sospitator, may do. But no Humane Language, nor indeed the Tongue of Angels can fully Express, what a Saviour we have in our Lord Jesus Christ. The Title, and Office, which is in the Sacred Oracles assigned unto our Lord Jesus Christ, is as that of The Saviour, so that of a like Importance, The Redeemer; Isa. 59. 20. The Redeemer shall come to Zion.

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