N00941:358
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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Another Voice of God unto us, is, Be strongly convinced of Humane Weakness and Frailty We read it in the Divine Oracle, Psal. 103 15, 16. As for man, his Days are as Grass, as a Flower of the Field, so he flourisheth: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. Do we not now read it in our own Experience? When we see Beauty turned into Ashes, Loveliness become Loathsomeness, the Greatest Charms become a prey to Worms, and the Desire of our Eyes become the Horror of our Eyes, how can we forbear crying out Lord, What Fading Flowers are these that we most of all dote upon! Lord When thou dost correct us with thy Rebukes, thou dost make our Beauty consume away like a moth, surely we are vanity.
Another Voice of God unto us, is, Bestrongly convinced of Humane Weakness and Frailty We read it in the Divine Oracle, Psal. 103 15, 16. As for man, his Days are as Grass, as a Flower of the Field, so he flourisheth: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. Do we not now read it in our own Experience? When we see Beauty turn'd into Ashes, Loveliness become Loathsomeness, the Greatest Charms become a prey to Worms, and the Desire of our Eyes become the Horror of our Eyes, how can we forbear crying out Lord, What Fading Flowers are these that we most of all dote upon! Lord When thou dost correct us with thy Rebukes, thou dost make our Beauty consume away like a moth, surely we are vanity.
A Third Voice of God unto us, is, Prepare to Follow. When the Desire of our Eyes is taken away, the Language of it is, that; Mat. 24 44 Be ye also Ready. They that are gone from us, were a part of our selves, & it may be not so Old as our selves. How inexcusable are we, if we do not say with our selves, I shall not be long after them? 'Twas the manner of old, for 'em to Lay and Leave their Friends in their ⟨p. 219⟩