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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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Or, that I may approach a Little closer to the point that lies before us. Would we know, Whether we have the Fear of God, or no? There are many Tokens to help us in our Trial▪ but that which is mostly to be pressed on us is, What is our behaviour under Afflictive Trials? There we come to the ⟨p. 45⟩Case that lies before us. In all our Afflictions our Flesh is […] yea but when we encounter the Cross handsomely, and Christianly, and Piously, that shows that we have more than Flesh in us. They that are all Flesh can't bear what contradicts the Flesh. But when we can patiently have our Flesh crossed by the Hand of God, and the Love and Sight of God enable us to bear it, there is more than Flesh in such a man.
Or, that I may approach a Little closer to the point that lies before us. Would we know, Whether we have the Fear of God, or no? There are many Tokens to help us in our Tryal▪ but that which is mostly to be pressed on us is, What is our behaviour under Afflictive Tryals? There we come to the ⟨p. 45⟩Case that lyes before us. In all our Afflictions our Flesh is 〈…〉 yea but when we encounter the Cross handsomely, and Christianly, and Piously, that shews that we have more than Flesh in us. They that are all Flesh can't bear what contradicts the Flesh. But when we can patiently have our Flesh crossed by the Hand of God, and the Love and Sight of God enable us to bear it, there is more than Flesh in such a man.
The Case is This.