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Meat out of the Eater

Name: Meat out of the Eater
Author: Thomas Manton

A parliamentary fast-day sermon drawing on Samson's riddle from Judges 14:14 — "Out of the eater came forth meat" — to argue that God brings spiritual nourishment from affliction and unity from division. Preached before the House of Commons in 1647 during England's civil turmoil, Manton demonstrates how God's providence transforms the church's trials into occasions for growth, and calls Parliament to pursue reformation and reconciliation amid national distress.

Chapters: 5
Word count: 17,638
Type: Sermon

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Meat out of the Eater, or, Hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a Sermon Preached before the Honorable House of Commons at Margaret's Westminster on their Solemn day of Fast, June 30, 1647.

By Thomas Manton, Minister of Stoke-Newington.

And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abraham's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle, and the Canaanite and Perizzite were yet in the land (Genesis 13:7).

[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]; Naz. orat. 33. adversus Ennomianos.

Pacem reliquit iturus, pacem reddet venturus. Aug. de Christo tract: 77. in Joh.

London, Printed by M. S. for Hanna Allen at the Crown in Popeshead Alley, 1647.

Meat out of the Eater

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