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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.
It is a Lamentable Thing, when Brethren and Sisters, are of such Ill Qualities, that they don't care to see one another.
It is a Lamentable Thing, when Rulers are not such as People can Desire; but such Roaring Lions and Ranging Bears, that they would rejoice to be […] of them. And it is a Lamentable Thing, when People are so unreasonably hard to please, that the Rulers, or any man of sense, would say, They ⟨p. 209⟩had rather have the Government of Wild Creatures committed unto them.
It is a Lamentable Thing, when Rulers are not such as People can Desire; but such Roaring Lions and Ranging Bears, that they would rejoyce to be 〈…〉 of them. And it is a Lamentable Thing, when People are so unreasonably hard to please, that the Rulers, or any man of sense, would say, They ⟨p. 209⟩had rathar have the Government of Wild Creatures committed unto them.
We read concerning a Renowned Minister of God; Dan. 9. 23. He was a man of Desires; a very Desirable man. It is a Lamentable Thing, when Ministers are so Ignorant, or so Negligent, or so Criminal, that their Hearers have no Cause to Desire their Ministry; but wish, they would Lay down. And it is a Lamentable Thing, when Hearers are so Captious, or so ungrateful that the Ministers have no cause to Desire to have any thing to do with them.