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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Preface: Preface,

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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?

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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.

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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 ?⟩the Incomparable Duplessis of his Dead Wife; She had formerly helped him in Living well, and should hereafter in Dying well, But he would have others to share with him in the Benefit. It would be some Consolation to him, if Goodness may be promoted in other Families, by Sorrow befalling of his; and if his Loss of her whom he so highly valued may render what he Speaks, effectual for the obliging other Consorts to set a due value upon one another. But since Heaven will have it so,

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

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A Consolatory POEM Dedicated unto MR. COTTON MATHER;