N00941:271
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.
Thirdly; If you have not the Lord Jesus Christ for a Redeemer, what will become of you? It is a Question, which I wish, you would all take into consideration; but neither you, nor all the Angels in Heaven can answer it! It is that; Heb. 2. 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great Salvation? Truly, As the Cloudy Pillar, wherein our Lord Redeemer of old Exhibited Himself, gave Light unto the Israelites, but gave Darkness to the Egyptians: Thus, while our Lord Jesus Christ is a Redeemer to them that Embrace Him, He will be a Revenger, a Punisher, a Destroyer to them who Refuse Him, and will not have Him to Reign over them. Woe to us, Inconceivable and Interminable will be our Wo•s, if the Redeemer, become our Enemy: And verily, He will do so, if we despise His Redemption. All the plagues written in the Book of God, will be the portion of the man, whom the Lord Jesus Christ ⟨p. 173⟩shall not Redeem from those tremendous plagues. Ponder, O Souls in Peril, ponder the Distresses, the Agonies, the prodigious Confusions, which our Lord Jesus Christ Himself underwent, when He was working out Redemption for us. Oh! such will be the Confusions, that you must undergo, if you miss of His Redemption! In short, Impenitent Sinners will find the Lord Jesus Christ such a Redeemer, as that, Isa. 63. 3. A Saviour, One Mighty to Save; but One that will tread them in His Anger, and trample them in His Fury, when the year of His Redeemed is come.
Thirdly; If you have not the Lord Jesus Christ for a Redeemer, what will become of you? It is a Question, which I wish, you would all take into consideration; but neither you, nor all the Angels in Heaven can answer it! It is that; Heb. 2. 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great Salvation? Truly, As the Cloudy Pillar, wherein our Lord Redeemer of old Exhibited Himself, gave Light unto the Israelites, but gave Darkness to the Egyptians: Thus, while our Lord Jesus Christ is a Redeemer to them that Embrace Him, He will be a Revenger, a Punisher, a Destroyer to them who Refuse Him, and will not have Him to Reign over them. Wo to us, Inconceivable and Interminable will be our Wo•s, if the Redeemer, become our Enemy: And verily, He will do so, if we despise His Redemption. All the plagues written in the Book of God, will be the portion of the man, whom the Lord Jesus Christ