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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
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.
Preface,
Behold, How his Calamities grow upon him! Lord, How are the Things increased which Trouble me?
BEhold, How his Calamities grow upon him! Lord, How are the Things increased which Trouble me?
But God in His Free and Rich Grace, makes the Calamities of the Sinful man, who is now Writing, to be Subservient unto the Interests of Religion, among those to whom what he Writeth, may be in any measure acceptable.
The Sudden Death of his First born, produced a Discourse about Fourteen Years ago, Printed at London, under the Title […], Right Thoughts in Sad hours. Four more of his Olive Plants have been since Withered; The Fruits yet produced by those Occasions, are Collected and Exposed, in the Book now before the Reader. A more Trying Death by far than all the former is at length inflicted on him. Their Lovely Mother must be at last Laid in a Tomb, where they must now together Sleep with her. A Sermon uttered just after the saddest Funeral that ever he saw, and composed under the most grievous Desolations of his Mind, as well as of his House, that ever were upon him, is now added unto the rest. He hopes to say, as ⟨image ?⟩