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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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To show the Fear of God, we must have another sort of Behaviour, than what is in the most of man, when under their Afflictions. Nehemiah spoke at this rate, Others did so and so, Neh. 5. 15. But so did not I because of the Fear of God Others in their Afflictions are froward; but, so must not we be because of the Fear of God. Others under their Afflictions are hopeless; but, so must not we be because of the Fear of God. Others under their Afflictions got nothing by them; they that were Ungodly are so still, they that were Carnal, and Worldly, and Profane ⟨p. 46⟩do still continue so; but, so must not we because of the Fear of God. Yea, the Fear of God, under our Afflictions, is to make us do more than others. Our Lord says to us in our Afflictions, What do you more than others? Except we do more, we can't prove that we have the Fear of God. I shall offer a few Questions in Answer to this Case: Try your selves by those Questions, in the Fear of God, I beseech you, I entreat you.
To shew the Fear of God, we must have another sort of Behaviour, than what is in the most of man, when under their Afflictions. Nehemiah spoke at this rate, Others did so and so, Neh. 5. 15. But so did not I because of the Fear of God Others in their Afflictions are froward; but, so must not we be because of the Fear of God. Others under their Afflictions are hopeless; but, so must not we be because of the Fear of God. Others under their Afflictions got nothing by them; they that were Ungodly are so still, they that were Carnal, and Worldly, and Profane ⟨p. 46⟩do still continue so; but, so must not we because of the Fear of God. Yea, the Fear of God, under our Afflictions, is to make us do more than others. Our Lord sayes to us in our Afflictions, What do you more than others? Except we do more, we can't prove that we have the Fear of God. I shall offer a few Questions in Answer to this Case: Try your selves by those Questions, in the Fear of God, I beseech you, I entreat you.