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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.
[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.
[3] The less Affliction here1 They feel, the more's to come The greater Blessings they abuse, The heavier is their Doom. Now let us take a Saint Whom men account accurst, Because they judge him plagued of God. And view him at his worst.
[3] The less Affliction here1 They feel, the more's to come The greater Blessings they abuse, The heavier is their Doome. Now let us take a Saint Whom men account accurst, Because they judge him plagu'd of God. And view him at his worst.
[4] Suppose his case as bad, As bad it well can be: And his Calamity more sad Then commonly we see. Dispose him where you will, Do with him what you can: Yet God is present with him still He is a happy man.