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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 Loss of a Desirable Relative, Lamented and Improved.
Preached 6 d. 10. m. 1702 the Lords-Day after the Death of my Lovely Consort.
Ezek. XXIV. 16. Son of Man, Behold I take away the Desire of thine Epes, with a Stroke.
I Am this Day my self a sad Commentary upon my Text. The Holy God hath, in my Deadly Calamity, given you its Lively Commentary. Your Eyes do behold, What it is for the God of Heaven, to take away from a Son of Man the Desire of his Eyes with a Strokes.
I Am this Day my self a sad Commentary upon my Text. The Holy God hath, in my Deadly Calamity, given you its Lively Commentary. Your Eyes do behold, What it is for the God of Heaven, to take away from a Son of Man the Desire of his Eyes with a Stroks.