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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.
[10] God gives them outward things, And they the same bestow 1Upon their Lusts: they serve the world, And unto Mammon bow. In him they put their trust; Him they most highly prize: Unto this Idol every day They offer Sacrifice.
[11] For having made the World The God whom they adore, They rake and scrape, they pill and pull, and covet more and more. The World doth fill their Head, And occupy their Heart: But God, to whom both these belong, They leave for him no part.
[12] Their Riches make them proud,1 And puff them up in mind: Their Plenty doth besot them too, And make them worse then blind. They see no need of Christ,2 But by his Grace set light: Despise a Saviour, shut their eyes Against the Gospel's Light.
[12] Their Riches make them proud,1 And puff them up in minde: Their Plenty doth besot them too, And make them worse then blinde. They see no need of Christ,