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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 more of Christianity there is in any man, the more of Honour and Value he is ready to put upon the Desire of his Eyes, and the more will he Desire to render himself on all accounts a Blessing unto her. So far is the Married State from hurting of an Heavenly Mind, that the more Heavenly Mind there is in any a man, the more Tenderness he has for her that is the Desire of ⟨p. 202⟩his Eyes. The Thoughts of such a man are, My Lord JESUS CHRIST has hidden me to Love this dear Creature with all possible Tenderness; and the more I Love her, the more shall I exhibit the Kindness which the Lord Jesus Christ has for his Church. By well treating her, who is to be the Desire of my Eyes, I shall adorn the Doctrine of God my Saviour, and make His Religion appear the more. Lovely in the Eyes of my Neighbours. Such Thoughts do Ennoble the Married Conversation of them that would Eminently approve themselves the Children of God, as well as the Children of men. And the Beastly Satyrs against Marriage which affront the Sober part of mankind, in many Printed Pamphlets, have a most noble Confutation in that Conversation.
The more of Christianity there is in any man, the more of Honour and Value he is ready to put upon the Desire of his Eyes, and the more will he Desire to render himself on all accounts a Blessing unto her. So far is the Married State from hurting of an Heavenly Mind, that the more Heavenly Mind there is in any a man, the more Tenderness he has for her that is the Disire of ⟨p. 202⟩his Eyes. The Thoughts of such a man are, My Lord JESUS CHRIST has hidden me to Love this dear Creature with all possible Tenderness; and the more I Love her, the more shall I exhibit the Kindness which the Lord Jesus Christ has for his Church. By well treating her, who is to be the Desire of my Eyes, I shall adorn the Doctrine of God my Saviour, and make His Religion appear the more. Lovely in the Eyes of my Neighbours. Such Thoughts do Ennoble the Married Conversation of them that would Eminently approve themselves the Children of God, as well as the Children of men. And the Beastly Satyrs against Marriage which affront the Sober part of mankind, in many Printed Pamphlets, have a most noble Confutation in that Conversation.