N00941:272
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.
Fourthly; You may not only Have, but also come to Know, that you have, the Lord Jesus Christ for your own Redeemer. O Precious and Peerless Happiness! We may come to call the Lord Jesus Christ, not only, A Redeemer; but also, My Redeemer. With an Appropriating Faith and Joy, as Thomas of old said, My Lord, and My God! So may we say, My Redeemer […] It is a Principle of our Protestant Religion, That Assurance of Salvation is in this Life atta•eable. This little Pronoun, My, tis worth ten thousand World, when a man can prefix it unto Redeemer; To say, My Redeemer ⟨p. 174⟩How does the Holy Psalmist boast of it! Psal 18. 2 The Lord, is my Rock, and my God, and my Deliverer! and, Psal 49. 15. God will Redeem my Soul. We may come to a Soul Refreshing Persuasion and Assurance of it, in our own Souls, My Lord Jesus Christ has Love me, and given Himself for me, and will give me a Particular share in the Redemption of the purchased possession throughout Eternal Ages.
Fourthly; You may not only Have, but also come to Know, that you have, the Lord Jesus Christ for your own Redeemer. O Precious and Peerless Happiness! We may come to call the Lord Jesus Christ, not only, A Redeemer; but also, My Redeemer. With an Appropriating Faith and Joy, as Thomas of old said, My Lord, and My God! So may we say, My Redeemer 〈…〉 It is a Principle of our Protestant Religion, That Assurance of Salvation is in this Life atta•eable. This little Pronoun, My, tis worth ten thousand World, when a man can prefix it unto Redeemer; To say, My Redeemer ⟨p. 174⟩How does the Holy Psalmist boast of it! Psal 18. 2 The Lord, is my Rock, and my God, and my Deliverer! and, Psal 49. 15. God will Redeem my Soul. We may come to a Soul Refreshing Perswasion and Assurance of it, in our own Souls, My Lord Jesus Christ has Love me, and given Himself for me, and will give me a Particular share in the Redemption of the purchased possession throughout Eternal Ages.