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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.
[13] They being fat and full1 Are wanton, Jesurun-like; They kick and spurn against God's Love, And at his Bowels strike. Whilst he them nourisheth,2 Against him they rebel: And under Satan's Banner fight,3 Like wicked Imps of Hell.
[13] They being fat and full1 Are wanton, Jesurun-like; They kick and spurn against God's Love, And at his Bowels strike. Whil'st he them nourisheth,2 Against him they rebell: And under Satan's Banner fight,3 Like wicked Imps of Hell.
- 1Deut. 32.15.
- 2Isa. 1.2.
- 3John 18.44.