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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.
[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,2 But by his Grace set light: Despise a Saviour, shut their eyes Against the Gospel's Light.