N00941:87
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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Quest. 1. Under our Trials, is the Hand of God very sensible unto us in the ordering of our Trials? Tis said of the Impious, Isa. 26. 11. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up they will not see: They charge all on the neglect of men, or the malice of men, or on the concurrence of second Causes▪ But what a thing is this? He that sees nothing of God in his Trials, has nothing of God in his Heart▪ •ow is it with us? Do we not […] the Creature our Horizon, that our […] shall terminate there, for the Original of our Afflictions? When our possessions are laid in the Dust, or in the Ground, do we think that the Afflictions came only out of the dust, or out of the ground? Under Bereavements, Do we say like Job, Job 1. 21. ⟨p. 47⟩It is the Lord that hath taken away, blessed be his name. Under our Calamities, do we say with David, 2 Sam 16. 10. It is the Lord that hath bidden it Does the First Cause of all take up all our Thoughts? Do all our Thoughts run in such a strain as that, I have to do with God in this Thing, I am concerned with God chiefly, yea with God only, in what is come to pass? now I know that thou fearest God.
Quest. 1. Under our Tryals, is the Hand of God very sensible unto us in the ordering of our Tryals? Tis said of the Impious, Isa. 26. 11. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up they will not see: They charge all on the neglect of men, or the malice of men, or on the concurrence of second Causes▪ But what a thing is this? He that sees nothing of God in his Tryals, has nothing of God in his Heart▪ •ow is it with us? Do we not 〈…〉 the Creature our Horizon, that our 〈…〉 shall terminate there, for the Original of our Afflictions? When our possessions are laid in the Dust, or in the Ground, do we think that the Afflictions came only out of the dust, or out of the ground? Under Bereavements, Do we say like Job,