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.

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Know it, O ye Redeemed of the Lord; Know, first: That our Lord JESUS CHRIST is our near Kinsman: And in that Capacity indeed, it belongs unto Him, to recover our forfeited Inheritance. It was the Rule of old, Lev. 8. 7. Thou shalt not hide thy self from thy own Flesh. Truly, our Lord Jesus Christ, in being Born of a Woman, is become one of our own Flesh; and upon this Account, He shows peculiar Kindness unto us. In our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God is become the Son of Man; It now belongs unto Him, to be a Redeemer for us; It belongs unto Him, not only, Jure proprietatis, but also, Jure propinquitatis; Not only by virtue of the Interest He hath in us, but also by virtue of the Relation We hear to Him. No Stranger, no Angel could […] us as our Lord JESUS CHRIST. […] one of our own Family, does […] said, Heb. 2. 11. […] they that are Sanctified, are […] ⟨p. 150⟩it may be said, He that Redeemeth, and they that are Redeemed, are all of one. The Lord JESUS CHRIST looks upon every Believer, even the poorest and meanest Believer in the world; and says, as Laban to his Nephew Jacob, Gen. 29. 14 Surely, Thou art my Bone, and my Flesh. Yea, as Joseph said once unto his Brethren, I am Joseph your Brother, God hath Employed me to preserve you: thus does our Lord say unto us, I am Jesus, your Elder Brother, and God has appointed me to Redeem you. O Nature of man! How highly art thou dignified, in that the Son of the most High God has in thee become our Kinsman! Christians, What a marvellous Encouragement have we in this Thing, That we have a Kinsman who is the Son of God! A man who Lies in the bosom of God! A man who is dearer to God than all the works of His Hands! A man who is one person with the Eternal Son of God! And this Man, a Kinsman to us Worms of the Dust! O our Glorious Kinsman, canst thou find in thy heart to see us wretched, and not look down for our Succour! Certainly, Our Kinsman cannot see us Miserable, but He will do what He can, & what can He ⟨p. 151⟩not do? to rescue us from our Miseries!

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