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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
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Conclude, first; I know that my Redeemer Lives; and I Know that the Glorious Gospel of my Redeemer, is the Scripture of Truth. Truly, The Life of the Redeemer, is a most Lively proof of the Truth in all that His Gospel hath Revealed unto us. About one signal point of the Gospel, we read, Act. 17 31. God hath given Assurance of it, in that He hath Raised Jesus Christ from the Dead. This may be said about all the Mysteries, and all the Commandments, and all the Promises of the Gospel; We have Assurance of these things, from the Life of our Lord Redeemer, Our Lord Jesus Christ hath laid before us, a most Excellent Body of Divinity in the Gospel. Well; How shall we know that the Gospel contains none but the True Sayings of God? Our Lord Redeemer Himself thus answered that Enquiry; If you see that I Rise again within two or three Days after I am Dead, then say, that I have delivered unto you, none but the True Sayings of God; and Believe my Faithful Sayings. Christians, we now See it; Oh, Let us Believe: Believe that our Lord-Redeemer ⟨p. 177⟩was no Deceiver in any thing, that ever He bid us Believe.
Conclude, first; I know that my Redeemer Lives; and I Know that the Glorious Gospel of my Redeemer, is the Scripture of Truth. Truly, The Life of the Redeemer, is a most Lively proof of the Truth in all that His Gospel hath Revealed unto us. About one signal point of the Gospel, we read, Act. 17 31. God hath given Assurance of it, in that He hath Raised Jesus Christ from the Dead. This may be said about all the Mysteries, and all the Commandments, and all the Promises of the Gospel; We have Assurance of these things, from the Life of our Lord Redeemer, Our Lord Jesus Christ hath laid before us, a most Excellent Body of Divinity in the Gospel. Well; How shall we know that the Gospel contains none but the True Sayings of God? Our Lord Redeemer Himself thus answered that Enquiry; If you see that I Rise again within two or three Dayes after I am Dead, then say, that I have delivered unto you, none but the True Sayings of God; and Believe my Faithful Sayings. Christians, we now See it; Oh, Let us Believe: Believe that our Lord-Redeemer ⟨p. 177⟩was no Deceiver in any thing, that ever He bid us Believe.