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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.
The Fourth Proposition.
When Faith is ••t upon the Trial it […] to part with the •earest Enjoyment, […] in the Trial. When God calls for any of our Enjoyments, though out very Isaacs themselves ⟨p. 19⟩There most reasonable things are by Faith acknowledged.
When Faith is ••t upon the Tryal it 〈…〉 to part with the •earest Enjoyment, 〈…〉 in the Tryal. When God calls for any of our Enjoyments, though out very Isaacs themselves ⟨p. 19⟩There most reasonable things are by Faith acknowledged.
1. One Reasonable thing that Faith will see and speak, is this, •My Dearest Enjoyments are forfeited Enjoyments. When God calls us to part with the Dearest Enjoyments, he only takes into his hands that whereof we had made an antecedent Forfeiture. God might have taken them away long ago. And Faith will say, Lam. 3. 39. Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his Sin? All that we undergo, when God shall deprive us of any will any complain of that! We are worthy to be bereaved of all. Says Job.