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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
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Know Thirdly; That our Lord JESUS CHRIST, by His Mighty Power does prosecute, and accomplish our Redemption from the reach of those Enemies. Not only the Merit, of our Lord, is tendered for our Redemption, but the Spirit, the Virtue, the Power of our Lord, is used, for the Application of the Redemption. We read, Col. 2. 15. He hath spoiled Powers. Our Lord Redeemer, hath, like an Illustrious Conqueror, come into the black Territories, where the Powers of Darkness held us in Chains of Darkness; Whereupon there follows, A Liberty, a Liberty for the Captives, an Opening of the Prison doors for them that were bound. By the powerful Influences of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fetters of Sin, upon the Wills of the Elect are taken off; they are brought out of the Unbelief, wherein they were Shut up: there […] Faith wrought in their Hearts, by which they are made the actual partakers of Redemption; & so they are turned from Darkness to Light, and from Satan to God, By ⟨p. 153⟩the Conversion of Sinners, in the Day of our Lords Power Exerted for them, there comes to pass that astonishing Things Isa 49. 24 The prey is taken from the mighty, and the lawful Captive is delivered. The Power of our Lord Jesus Christ, is put forth, to bring the Redeemed, out of their forlorn Estate, their thraldom in Sin, their Bondage to Satan, their Lying under the Curse; tis done. in Converting them to God.
Know Thirdly; That our Lord JESUS CHRIST, by His Mighty Power does prosecute, and accomplish our Redemption from the reach of those Enemies. Not only the Merit, of our Lord, is tendered for our Redemption, but the Spirit, the Vertue, the Power of our Lord, is used, for the Application of the Redemption. We read, Col. 2. 15. He hath spoiled Powers. Our Lord Redeemer, hath, like an Illustrious Conqueror, come into the black Territories, where the Powers of Darkness held us in Chains of Darkness; Whereupon there follows, A Liberty, a Liberty for the Captives, an Opening of the Prison doors for them that were bound. By the powerful Influences of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fetters of Sin, upon the Wills of the Elect are taken off; they are brought out of the Unbelief, wherein they were Shut up: there 〈…〉 Faith wrought in their Hearts, by which they are made the actual partakers of Redemption; & so they are turned from Darkness to Light, and from Satan to God, By