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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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Quest. III. Do we in all our Trials humbly acknowledge and reverence the Righteousness of God, whereby the Trials are inflicted? Whatever Affliction come upon us, do we never say, We have an hard Portion? Is it with us as with them, Lam. 3. 39. Why should a living man complain; a man for the Punishment of his Sin. In the ⟨p. 49⟩midst of all our Lamentations, do we think, This is the punishment of my sin! and then do we say, I will never complain of this! Do we say as Nehemiah, Ch. 9. 33. Thou art Just in all that is brought on us! Yea, as Ezra, Ch. 9 13. Thou hast punished us far less than our Iniquities have deserved! Tho' there come a Sea of Trouble, on us, do we see and say, There's not one drop of Injustice in all that Sea? Whatever Affliction we meet withal, is that still the language of our Souls, This is not Hell! Hell I deserve. If so, now I know that thou fearest God.
Quest. III. Do we in all our Tryals humbly acknowledge and reverence the Righteousness of God, whereby the Tryals are inflicted? Whatever Affliction come upon us, do we never say, We have an hard Portion? Is it with us as with them, Lam. 3. 39. Why should a living man complain; a man for the Punishment of his Sin. In the ⟨p. 49⟩midst of all our Lamentations, do we think, This is the punishment of my sin! and then do we say, I will never complain of this! Do we say as Nehemiah, Ch. 9. 33. Thou art Just in all that is brought on us! Yea, as Ezra, Ch. 9 13. Thou hast punished us far less than our Iniquities have deserved! Tho' there come a Sea of Trouble, on us, do we see and say, There's not one drop of Injustice in all that Sea? Whatever Affliction we meet withal, is that still the language of our Souls, This is not Hell! Hell I deserve. If so, now I know that thou fearest God.
Quest. IV. Are we in all our Trials very studious to learn, to mind, to mend, whatever may be the procuring cause of our Trials? Probably, when afflictions come, there is a Controversy which the God, who afflicts us, is therein managing with us. God may say to us, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? Well then, In Afflictions are we duly inquisitive after the Cause of all? When a Child was taken away from an Excellent person, she said, O man of God, sin is now brought unto Remembrance! Accordingly when any Affliction comes on us, do we set our selves to