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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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IV. And now, a Fourth Proposition comes to challenge a Share in my Discourse; which would have been, That when Desirable Relatives are taken away, there is a dreadful Stroke of God upon us, in the Taking of them. But my best way of Speaking to this Proposition, will be only to lay, That I am not at present well able to Speak to it; I do not yet know, all the Evil that is to be spoken to it. [Only I know what Pread in the Twelfth of Job, and the Fourteenth!] We will proceed therefore unto the
IV. And now, a Fourth Proposition comes to challenge a Share in my Discourse; which would have been, That when Desireable Relatives are taken away, there is a dreadful Stroke of God upon us, in the Taking of them. But my best way of Speaking to this Proposition, will be only to lay, That I am not at present well able to Speak to it; I do not yet know, all the Evil that is to be spoken to it. [Only I know what Pread in the Twelfth of Job, and the Fourteenth!] We will proceed therefore unto the
APPLICATION.
I. Are the Children of men sometimes blessed with Desirable Relatives? Tis then a Lamentable Thing, when Relatives do not Study to render themselves Desirable. When Relatives have no Desire, no Respect, no Honour for one another, they are very unhappy in one another. The Yoking of such Relatives, is almost as great an unhappiness, as •he Torment invented by the Tyrant, who fastened a Dead Body to a Living One, Relatives there are, who are not the ⟨p. 208⟩Desire of the Eyes to those, unto whom they stand Related; But, the Terror of their Eyes, or, The contempt of their Eyes; a very Smoke in their Eyes, and an abominable Eye sore; or, as is Expressed,