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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.
Sometimes when a Sentence of Death is passed upon our Desirable Relatives, we may by Prayer and Faith obtain a short Reprieve. The Relatives may be Prayer and Faith, be rescued from the Jaws of Death, one time after another; until the Lord shall say unto us; Now be content; I have granted as long as I see convenient: Say no more: Be willing to take up with Spiritual and Eternal Blessings, and with what I shall order for thee: what I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. And when our Hearts are perhaps thus fitted for it, Son of man, Behold, the Lord now takes away the Desire of thine Eyes with a Stroke. Though we bring the Desire of our Eyes unto the Lord, with never such a Fountain of Tears in our Eyes, and spread the Desire of our Souls with never such Importunity before Him, for the continuance of it; yet it must, when God sees meet, be taken away, Death will first or last, accomplish that Lamentable Thing; […] 2 4. He slow all the Desirable of the Eye, in the Tabernacle of the Daughter of Zion.
Sometimes when a Sentence of Death is passed upon our Desireable Relatives, we may by Prayer and Faith obtain a short Reprieve. The Relatives may be Prayer and Faith, be rescued from the Jaws of Death, one time after another; until the Lord shall say unto us; Now be content; I have granted as long as I see convenient: Say no more: Be willing to take up with Spiritual and Eternal Blessings, and with what I shall order for thee: what I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. And when our Hearts are perhaps thus fitted for it, Son of man, Behold, the Lord now takes away the Desire of thine Eyes with a Stroke. Though we bring the Desire of our Eyes unto the Lord, with never such a Fountain of Tears in our Eyes, and spread the Desire of our Souls with never such Importunity before Him, for the continuance of it; yet it must, when God sees meet, be taken away, Death will first or last, accomplish that Lamentable Thing; 〈…〉 2 4. He slow all the Desireable of the Eye, in the Tabernacle of the Daughter of Zion.
Yea, Sometimes Desirable Relatives must be taken from us, for this very reason; Because we too much make them, The Desire ⟨p. 205⟩