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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.
The Third Proposition.
In the Trial of our Faith by our God, we are put upon parting with the dearest Enjoyments we have in the Would. Our Isaacs, God will call us to part with them: And How?
In the Tryal of our Faith by our God, we are put upon parting with the dearest Enjoyments we have in the Would. Our Isaacs, God will call us to part with them: And How?
1. God calls us to part with our dearest Enjoyments by Submission to Providence When […] comes […] God on our dearest Enjoyments then we must submit unto […] of God, in all the Deadly strokes of His Hand upon them. ⟨p. 16⟩Sometimes a Jacob can say, My Joseph is not, & Simeon is not When it comes to this, we are to part with all, and make a Free will Offering of it unto the Lord. How? with Submission say, The Will of the Lord be done▪ When God lays losses and crosses on us; when God will deprive us of our Honours our Estates, our Delights, then be content that God should even do what he will with us. A Child of David was killed How did he behave himself? We read 2 Sam 12. 20. David says, Is the Child Dead? They said, he is Dead. Then he arose and washed himself, and came into the House of the Lord, and they set bread before him in his own House and he did eat. […] was right! says he