N00941:93
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. VII. In our Trials what are our Supports, and where do we go to make up that we have lost in our Trials? The most of men in Afflictions are like Ahaze Chr. 28, 21, 23. Ahaz goes first to the Kings of Assyria, but they help, him not, the• he• ⟨p. 54⟩Sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus and Syria, and they were the ruin of him. So many a man when afflicted will say, I have something left still! And there is all the Refreshment he has If we are visited with Death after Death, how do we Support our selves? Is it by thinking, The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock! Like David, 2 Sam. 23. 5. Though God break my House, yet he has made with me an Everlasting Covenant, ordered in all thing, and sure, This is all my Salvation and all my desire, though he make it not to grow. Suppose God will not let our Houses grow, Is this the Consolation of our Soul, that God hath made a New Covenant with us? Do we comfort our selves with this, We have Christ in the New Covenant, where there is Grace and Glory, and every good Thing? Are the Promises of God our Consolation at our Funerals? can we say, I had perished in mine affliction, unless I had had the Word of God now I know that thou fearest God.
Quest. VII. In our Tryals what are our Supports, and where do we go to make up that we have lost in our Tryals? The most of men in Afflictions are like Ahaze Chr. 28, 21, 23. Ahaz goes first to the Kings of Assyria, but they help, him not, the• he• ⟨p. 54⟩Sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus and Syria, and they were the ruine of him. So many a man when afflicted will say, I have something left still! And there is all the Refreshment he has If we are visited with Death after Death, how do we Support our selves? Is it by thinking, The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock! Like David, 2 Sam. 23. 5. Though God break my House, yet he has made with me an Everlasting Covenant, ordered in all thing, and sure, This is all my Salvation and all my desire, though he make it not to grow. Suppose God will not let our Houses grow, Is this the Consolation of our Soul, that God hath made a New Covenant with us? Do we comfort our selves with this, We have Christ in the New Covenant, where there is Grace and Glory, and every good Thing? Are the Promises of God our Consolation at our Funerals? can we say, I had perished in mine affliction, unless I had had the Word of God now I know that thou fearest God.