N00941:54
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.
How is Faith more particularly to be Exercised in parting with our Children?
Truly, Sirs, In the multitude of my Thoughts within me, I have these Counsels to direct my soul; and since my Trial may befall many others, I wish that they may now hear something for their Direction.
Truly, Syrs, In the multitude of my Thoughts within me, I have these Counsels to direct my soul; and since my Tryal may befal many others, I wish that they may now hear something for their Direction.
O my Soul, Rely by Faith upon God in Christ, for to be the God of my Children, according to His Covenant. The Covenant of Grace, is expressed unto Abraham, I will Establish an Everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and unto thy Seed after thee. Now, I am well assured, That the Blessing of Abraham, and this Blessed Covenant, is come upon the […] by Jesus Christ, But, I• the Great Cross ⟨p. 28⟩will be a God unto my Children, Triumph, O my Faith, in a joyful Assurance That He will Raise them from the Dead, and that He has prepared for them a Room in his Heavenly City. My Dead Christian are to Live again; They are only Entered into their Chambers, and Shut up, and Hidden, and for a Little moment, until the Indignation of God against a wicked world be […] pa•t. A […] God, the Regenerating and Enlivening Spirit of God •alling like a Dew upon them (which in their Baptism has been Scaled unto them) shall fetch them out like Herbs. at the Spring of the […] That Rational and Immortal Spirit, which the Inspiration of the Almighty Enkindled in them at their first Conception, is not annihilated at their Departure from hence. No, it goes to be with Jesus Christ, where to be, […] the […] of all. There is a Glorious Paradise, in which it is Lodged, until […] brought from thence at the Second […] of the Lord. Then the Children of mine, which now Dwell n the […] shall Wake and be the Son […] like […]