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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.
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, 1 Sam. 2 33. To consume their Eyes, and Grieve their Hearts. A most Lamentable Thing! When Relatives are so Little Desired, that they are taken away from each other, without being much Lamented. We read of such an one; 2 Chro. 21. 20. He departed, without being Desired.
I. Are the Children of men sometimes blessed with Desireable Relatives? Tis then a Lamentable Thing, when Relatives do not Study to render themselves Desireable. 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 Tyran, who fastned 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,