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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.
Secondly; It is the Hand of God which ⟨p. 217⟩takes away our Desirable Relatives: But let us Hear the Voice of God, in that work of His Hand. Oh, Hear the Rod; for there is a Voice in it.
Secondly; It is the Hand of God which ⟨p. 217⟩takes away our Desireable Relatives: But let us Hear the Voice of God, in that work of His Hand. Oh, Hear the Rod; for there is a Voice in it.
The Voice of God unto us, in taking away the Desire of our Eyes is, Humble thy self under the mighty Hand of God. It is now, if ever, a Seaton for that Practice; Lam 3 40. Let us Search and Try our ways, and Turn again unto the Lord. Let us now, Search and Try, whether the Just God have […] Controversy with us. Now Search and Try, what may be the Sins, by which the Desire of our Eyes has been Confiscated. Search and Try, whether we did carry towards the Desire of our Eyes as we ought to do. Let this our Self Examination issue in a deep Abhorrence of our selves, and a True Repentance of our Sins That, That is the Right Mourning, which is a Sorrowing to Repentance, and a being Sorry after a Godly manner. But now, by fresh Applications with Faith, to the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, which cleanses from all Sin obtain the Pardon of all the Sins, whereof we do thus Repent. And, Oh, be very cautious of again calling into the Sins, or being like that man, of whom it is said, In the Time of His Distress, He Trespassed yet more against the Lord.
The Voice of God unto us, in taking away the Desire of our Eyes is, Humble thy self under the mighty Hand of God. It is now, if ever, a Seaton for that Practice; Lam 3 40. Let us Search and Try our wayes, and Turn again unto the Lord. Let us now, Search and Try, whether the Just God have 〈…〉 Controversy with us. Now Search and Try, what may be the Sins, by which the Desire of our Eyes has been Confiscated. Search and Try, whether we did carry towards the Desire of our Eyes as we ought to do. Let this our Self Examination issue in a deep Abhorrence of our selves, and a True Repentance of our Sins That, That is the Right Mourning, which is a Sorrowing to Repentance, and a being Sorry after a Godly manner. But now, by fresh Applications with Faith, to the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, which cleanses from all Sin obtain the Pardon of all the Sins, whereof we do thus Repent. And, Oh, be very cautious of again calling into the Sins, or being like that man, of whom it is said, In the Time of His Distress, He Trespassed yet more against the Lord.