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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Secondly; Our Lord Jesus Christ is MAN. Indeed this man was Crucified and Murdered; and He was in Hades or the State of the Dead, for part of Three Days and Nights. But what is He, and where is He now? He Lives. If we now look for our great Redeemer in His Grave, we shall soon be advised, as they were, Luk 24. 6. He is not here, He is Risen Yea, our Lord, being Received up into Glory, Writes a Letter from Heaven to His Church on Earth, with this Advice; Rev. 1. 18 I am He that Lives; tho' I was Dead, behold, I am Alive now for ever more. Tis a remarkable passage, that fellows upon our Text: He […] stand at the last upon the Earth An horrible Ba••el between the Messiah, and the Serpent, is foretold in the Third Chapter of Genesis. The Earth was to be the Field ⟨p. 161⟩of this Battle. In the Battle, the Messiah has His Heel bruised, or His Humanity, that of Him which was next unto the Earth, became obnoxious to the stroke of Mortality. But the Serpent is over-come; the Messiah over-comes him, and stands at the last upon the Earth, with Satan bruised under His Feet. That standing of our Lord-Redeemer at the last upon the Earth, is fulfilled in His Rising from the Dead. Holy Job, Didst thou then Expect, like thy Messiah to be at the last victorious? The Hint is very curious. But,

Secondly; Our Lord Jesus Christ is MAN. Indeed this man was Crucified and Murdered; and He was in Hades or the State of the Dead, for part of Three Dayes and Nights. But what is He, and where is He now? He Lives. If we now look for our great Redeemer in His Grave, we shall soon be advised, as they were, Luk 24. 6. He is not here, He is Rison Yea, our Lord, being Received up into Glory, Writes a Letter from Heaven to His Church on Earth, with this Advice; Rev. 1. 18 I am He that Lives; tho' I was Dead, behold, I am Alive now for ever more. Tis a remarkable passage, that fellows upon our Text: He 〈…〉 stand at the last upon the Earth An horrible Ba••el between the Messiah, and the Serpent, is foretold in the Third Chapter of Genesis. The Earth was to be the Field ⟨p. 161⟩

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