Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…

Name: Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703

[6], 222 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo) · 46k words · Evans 1127

Title page typeset from the transcription.

The Fear of God, Under TRIALS from The Hand of GOD.The Fear of God, Under TRYALS from The Hand of GOD.

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

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:92p. 55–56

Well then, For the Conclusion of all; Oh Let not the Consolation of God be small unto you that have attained and practised this right behaviour. If under your afflictive Trials you behave your selves agreeably to the Expectation of God, what follows but this, I know ⟨p. 56⟩that thou fearest God? Suppose God should Commission one of His Angels to Speak that unto us, as to Abraham, Now I know thou Fearest God; would not that abundantly make amends for all that we have undergone, under our Trials?

Well then, For the Conclusion of all; Oh Let not the Consolation of God be small unto you that have attained and practised this right behaviour. If under your afflictive Tryals you behave your selves agreeably to the Expectation of God, what follows but this, I know ⟨p. 56⟩that thou fearest God? Suppose God should Commission one of His Angels to Speak that unto us, as to Abraham, Now I know thou Fearest God; would not that abundantly make amends for all that we have undergone, under our Tryals?

:93p. 56–57

Oh! Should the blessed God Say to us, Now I know, that thou fearest me, what could we feel after this, either of the Enchantments or the Distresses of this World? Let me speak the word of the Angel to those that sincerely thus endeavour; Now I know that thou fearest God; and tell you upon it, Now I know that there is a great Goodness laid up for thee. Tis said, Psal 31. 19. Oh how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee. Yea, shall we take it home to our selves; Now we know that we fear God: but what […] do we know? Now we know, we should be of Good cheer, because our Sins are forgiven us, as to them that fear Him. Now we know, that God is our Portion, Christ our Saviour, Heaven our inheritance; Death is ours; it shall do us no harmest. Now we know, that all things shall work together for good unto us. God will give us Grace and Glory, and all the sure Mercies of his Covenant; God will ⟨p. 57⟩

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