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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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Remember, O Christians; our God is a Sovereign God. Were the Desire of our Eyes never so bright a Thing, 'twas but a bright piece of Clay, and absolutely at the Dispose of the Eternal Potter. Our God is a Righteous God. When the Desire of our Eyes is ravished from us, Rivers of Tears may […] down our Eyes for the Sins by which we forfeited it. Our God is an […] God. Our Creator, our Saviour, Your comforter is Infinite, and […] ⟨p. 216⟩Enjoy Him, when the finest Creature dyes. Tho' a Lovely Creature be Snatched from us, have we not a Lovely Jesus lest us for our Consolation? When the Desire of our Eyes is gone, we may still converse with Him, who should be the Desire of all Nations. Why say we not now with him, Psal. 73 25. Lord, There is none upon Earth, that I desire besides thee? When David had lost the Desire of his Eyes, we read, He Encouraged himself in the Lord his God. Oh, Let this Encouragement make us very Patient; we still have the Lord for our God! In the Marian Persecution, there was a Woman brought before the bloody Bishop of London, on the Score of the Gospel. He threatened her to take away her Husband from her; said the, Christ is my Husband. He threatened her to take away her Child from her; said she, Christ is better to me than ten Sons. He said, He would Strip her, of all her outward Comforts; Her answer was, But Christ is mine, and you cannot Strip me of Him. Admirably Spoken! Let my Sex too, learn of that admirable Woman, how to Encourage our selves under the worst of our Bereavements.
Remember, O Christians; our God is a Sovereign God. Were the Desire of our Eyes never so bright a Thing, t'was but a bright piece of Clay, and absolutely at the Dispose of the Eternal Potter. Our God is a Righteous God. When the Desire of our Eyes is ravished from us, Rivers of Tears may 〈…〉 down our Eyes for the Sins by which we forfeited it. Our God is an 〈…〉 God. Our Creator, our Saviour, Your comforter is Infinite, and 〈…〉 ⟨p. 216⟩Enjoy Him, when the finest Creature dyes. Tho' a Lovely Creature be Snatch'd from us, have we not a Lovely Jesus lest us for our Consolation? When the Desire of our Eyes is gone, we may still converse with Him, who should be the Desire of all Nations. Why say we not now with him,