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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 8: Meditation VIII.
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.
Then wicked men are at the best.
[1] WE have the Wicked viewed, And seen his best estate: And who would choose with him to share, Except a Reprobate? 1For sure the Simple's ease Shall turn to his decay: And the Prosperity of Fools Shall utterly them slay.
[1] WE have the Wicked view'd, And seen his best estate: And who would chuse with him to share, Except a Reprobate? 1For sure the Simple's ease Shall turn to his decay: And the Prosperity of Fools Shall utterly them slay.
[2] 1When wicked men like Grass Do springing up arise, When they are in a flourishing case That work iniquities: 'Tis for their cutting down To perpetuity; It's but to ripen them for woe, And endless misery.