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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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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.
3. Be mindful; that you your selves are shortly Dye, and be always ready to Dye. 'Tis said, I Cor. 7. 29. The Time is short, therefore let those that have this and that he as though they had it not. The Time is short! Think, It will be but a little while that I shall have anything. That will make us willing to part with it, when God will have it parted withal. A Dying man is a man Crucified unto the World. Oh, place your selves in the circumstances of a Dying man, and the world will then be no more to you than to a Dying man It will produce a moderation both to our value and sorrow for these things, when we Remember, The Lord is at hand! Oh, look at all evil things then but as the Inconveniences of our Inn. Suppose our Children Dye, and they Get home before us, it is the same home we are our selves going to. Let us with the Disposition of Strangers, and of Sojourners, and of Travellers here, keep going on to the Rest that remains for the People of God.
3. Be mindful; that you your selves are shortly Dye, and be always ready to Dye. 'Tis said, I Cor. 7. 29. The Time is short, therefore let those that have this and that he as though they had it not. The Time is short! Think, It will be but a little while that I shall have anything. That will make us willing to part with it, when God will have it parted withal. A Dying man is a man Crucifyed unto the World. Oh, place your selves in the circumstances of a Dying man, and the world will then be no more to you than to a Dying man It will produce a moderation both to our value and sorrow for these things, when we Remember, The Lord is at hand! Oh, look at all evil things then but as the Inconveniencies of our Inn. Suppose our Children Dye, and they Get home before us, it is the same home we are our selves going to. Let us with the Disposition of Strangers, and of Sojourners, and of Travellers here, keep going on to the Rest that remains for the People of God.
But inasmuch as one End of the most Holy Lord, in sending of Afflictive Trials upon His poor Ministers, is, That the Experience of the Pastors may prove the Edification of the People Why should not a man that hath seen Affliction by the Rod of God, newly striking his only Son to Death, now utter unto you his Thoughts on this more particular Case?