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Meat out of the eater
Meat out of the eater: or, Meditations concerning the necessity, end, and usefulness of afflictions unto Gods children. All tending to prepare them, for, and comfort them under the cross. / By Michael Wigglesworth.Meat out of the eater: or, Meditations concerning the necessity, end, and usefulness of afflictions unto Gods children. All tending to prepare them, for, and comfort them under the crosse. / By Michael Wigglesworth.
printed by S.G. Samuel Green for John Usher of Boston, 1670
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 7: Meditation VII.
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.
[7] Their eyes stand out with fat;1 They've more then heart can wish: Honey and milk, butter and oil Do drop into their dish. The World them dandleth, Like Darlings on her lap, And streams delights into their mouth From this and the other Pap.
[7] Their eyes stand out with fat;1 They've more then heart can wish: Honey and milk, butter and oil Do drop into their dish. The World them dandleth, Like Darlings on her lap, And streams delights into their mouth From this and th'other Pap.