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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
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II. Very Desirable Relatives may be, yea, shall be, taken away from one another; And the more they have been the Desire of our Eyes, perhaps the sooner they must be taken from us. What are Earthly Comforts? Truly, very Short Lived Comforts. We read, 1 Chron. 29. 15. Our Days on the Earth are as a Shadow, and there is none abiding. ⟨p. 203⟩Relatives that would gladly Live together, and unto whom it is a Death to think of Parting must in a Little while be p•rted by Death Let Relatives be never so strongly Engaged unto one another, it won't be long before Death brings a terrible Dissolution upon all their Engagements. Their Love may be Strong as Death; yet Strong Death will Dissolve all the Ties of it. Are there any Relatives, which are unto us, The Desire of our Eyes? It won't be long before they take that long Farewell of us; Job 7. 8 The Eye of him that hath seen me, shall see me no more. A Time will come, when one shall say with her, 2 King. 4 1. My Husband is Dead. A Time will come, when another shall say with him, Gen. 23. 4. I must bury my Dead, out of my Sight.
II. Very Desireable Relatives may be, yea, shall be, taken away from one another; And the more they have been the Desire of our Eyes, perhaps the sooner they must be taken from us. What are Earthly Comforts? Truely, very Short Lived Comforts. We read, 1 Chron. 29. 15. Our Dayes on the Earth are as a Shadow, and there is none abiding. ⟨p. 203⟩Relatives that would gladly Live together, and unto whom it is a Death to think of Parting must in a Little while be p•rted by Death Let Relatives be never so strongly Engaged unto one another, it won't be long before Death brings a terrible Dissolution upon all their Engagements. Their Love may be Strong as Death; yet Strong Death will Dissolve all the Ties of it. Are there any Relatives, which are unto us, The Desire of our Eyes? It won't be long before they take that long Farewel of us;