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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:256p. 161–162

The Resurrection of our Lord Redeemer is a thing acknowledged by us, when we say, My Redeemer Lives. And the Life of Christianity it self mightily turns upon this Acknowledgement. There can be nothing more Serviceable to Christianity, than to see, The Resurrection (and so, the Life,) of Jesus Christ, on whom we rely to be unto us, The Resurrection & Life, thoroughly demonstrated Shall we then endeavour the Demonstration of it? The Case before us is, How do we know that our Redeemer Lives? That man is no Christian, who can't prove it unto his own Satisfaction, and therein Give a Reason of the Hope that i• in him. Give Attention, O ye Professors ⟨p. 162⟩of the Christian Religion, Give Attention to the chief, but brief, Heads of the proof, That our Redeemer Lives.

The Resurrection of our Lord Redeemer is a •hing acknowledged by us, when we say, My Redeemer Lives. And the Life of Christianity it self mightily turns upon this Acknowledgment. There can be nothing more Serviceable to Christianity, than to see, The Resurrection (and so, the Life,) of Jesus Christ, on whom we rely to be unto us, The Resurrection & Life, thoroughly demonstrated Shall we then endeavour the Demonstration of it? The Case before us is, How do we know that our Redeemer Lives? That man is no Christian, who can't prove it unto his own Satisfaction, and therein Give a Reason of the Hope that i• in him. Give Attention, O ye Professors ⟨p. 162⟩of the Christian Religion, Give Attention to the chief, but brief, Heads of the proof, That our Redeemer Lives.

:257p. 162–164

First, The Disciples of our Lord Redeemer were Witnesses, and they are very credible and sufficient Witnesses, of His Resurrection to Life. Our Lord having foretold. That in Three Days after His Death, He would Rise from the Dead, this was a thing that stuck in the Stomachs of His Murderers. For this cause we find,

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