N00941:88
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 II. Do our Trials drive us more Heartily, Fervently, Constantly, to seek the Face of God who sends the Trials? The wicked, they are to Prayer, like the Children's Tops, no longer stirring than the ••ashes are upon them. Indeed they will Pray in their Afflictions many times. We read, Isa 26 16. in Trouble they will visit God, and pour out a Prayer. So did Ahab, and so did Magus, of old! But how? Not from an internal Principle: They have not an affection for Prayer: They go to it but as driven; and their Prayer is no Prayer. Tis said Job 27. 9, 10 Will God b••r his cry, when Trouble cometh on him? W••• he delight himself in the Almighty? Will be always call upon God? If he call upon God; tis not with any Delight. How is it with us? ⟨p. 48⟩The Children of God have a Principle in them, called A Spirit of Prayer. Is that Spirit now awakened, and move more Vigorous than ever before? When any thing ails us, do we naturally go to God about it, as Children to a Father? It may be the Spirit, of God and of Prayer, was flatted in us before such Afflictions came upon us; but upon the first assault of our Afflictions, do we fall to Prayer immediately at the old rate and more than so? Are we like David, who said, Psal 116 3, 4 I found Trouble and Sorrow, the sorrows of Death compassed me; Then I called on the Name of the Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my Soul. Are we like Paul who said, 2 Cor. 28 9 I had a Messenger of Satan to buffet m•, but I be […] Lord thrice. The more Sorrowful thee more Prayerful? Now I know that thou fearest God!
Quest II. Do our Tryals drive us more Heartily, Fervently, Constantly, to seek the Face of God who sends the Tryals? The wicked, they are to Prayer, like the Childrens Tops, no longer stirring than the ••ashes are upon them. Indeed they will Pray in their Afflictions many times. We read, Isa 26 16. in Trouble they will visit God, and pour out a Prayer. So did Ahab, and so did Magus, of old! But how? Not from an internal Principle: They have not an affection for Prayer: They go to it but as driven; and their Prayer is no Prayer. Tis said