N00941:94
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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Qu VIII. Under our Trials, What value have we for the Spiritual & Eternal Benefits that are to be gained by our Trials? Do we say, Psal. 119 71. It is good for me that I have ⟨p. 55⟩been afflicted, that I might learn thy Statutes. This is Good, even to do justice, to love mercy to walk humbly with our God. 'Tis Good for us to Draw near to God. 'Tis Good for Sin to be odious, and Christ precious, and God glorious to us, and Heaven better affected by us than ever, and to be weaned from the world and all things below, and our Affections more set on things above: To bring forth much of that fruit whereby our Heavenly Father may be glorified. Does the Thought of getting this good by our Afflictions make them all easy to us? Do we say, It is better for me that I should be partaker of this Good, than to have my Riches and Children all about me! and a Soul pining away in Iniquity, or leanness in my Soul? It is better for me to have the Grace of God, then all the good things of this world about me. If it be thus, now I know that thou fearest God.
Qu VIII. Under our Tryals, What value have we for the Spiritual & Eternal Benefits that are to be gained by our Tryals? Do we say, Psal. 119 71. It is good for me that I have ⟨p. 55⟩been afflicted, that I might learn thy Statutes. This is Good, even to do justice, to love mercy to walk humbly with our God. 'Tis Good for us to Draw near to God. 'Tis Good for Sin to be odious, and Christ precious, and God glorious to us, and Heaven better affected by us than ever, and to be weaned from the world and all things below, and our Affections more set on things above: To bring forth much of that fruit whereby our Heavenly Father may be glorified. Does the Thought of getting this good by our Afflictions make them all easy to us? Do we say, It is better for me that I should be partaker of this Good, than to have my Riches and Children all about me! and a Soul pining away in Iniquity, or leanness in my Soul? It is better for me to have the Grace of God, then all the good things of this world about me. If it be thus, now I know that thou fearest God.