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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.
And at the Resurrection from the Dead, our Lord Jesus Christ will Redeem us from all Temptations, from all Afflictions, from all that may be Uneasy to us. We are now, drowned in Tears, on many. Mournful Occasions; but we shall then Enjoy a Redemption, wherein, Rev. 7. 16. God shall wipe away all Tears from our Eyes. The Devils are now Annoying and Buffeting of us, with all sorts of Temptations: but Satan will be bound, when our Lord Redeemer shall Descend and Return unto us. The ⟨p. 157⟩Devils of Hell will never be found in that City of God, that shall then come down from Heaven. And we shall then be out of reach unto all their Instruments. Nor will any Afflictions then betide us; there will be no Briars and Thorns in the World of our Lord Redeemer, the Second Adam. We shall suffer no Poverty, but we shall Inhabit a City, whereof the Streets are pure Gold. We shall suffer no Malady, but we shall have the Sun of Righteousness full shining upon us, with Healing in His Wings. We shall not walk in any Darkness, but we shall be lodged where there shall be no Night, nor shall they need the Light of the Sun, for the Lord God gives them light. Indeed, in this World, we meet with Numberless and continual Troubles; and the nearer our life i• to the Grave, the fuller our Souls are of Troubles. Even, Man that is born of a Woman, or the better sort of men, who are the Seed of the Woman, opposed unto the Seed of the Serpent; They that lay hold on the great Promise unto the First Woman, about Him, who is most eminently, The Seed of the Woman, and that imitate the Faith of that famous and holy Woman: These are full of Trouble, in their few days. ⟨p. 158⟩But then, we shall never have any thing to Trouble us, World without end.
And at the Resurrection from the Dead, our Lord Jesus Christ will Redeem us from all Temptations, from all Afflictions, from all that may be Uneasy to us. We are now, drowned in Tears, on many. Mournful Occasions; but we shall then Enjoy a Redemption, wherein, Rev. 7. 16. God shall wipe away all Tears from our Eyes. The Devils are now Annoying and Buffeting of us, with all sorts of Temptations: but Satan will be bound, when our Lord Redeemer shall Descend and Return unto us. The