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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.
[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.
[5] Let Sickness come upon him, Or great Tormenting Pain: God will not lose him,1 but a Saint A Saint shall still remain. In Prison him immure, All comforts from him take: You cannot rob him of his God, Nor him unhappy make.
[6] 1Plunge him into the mire, Or water; God is near: Cast him into the burning Fire; 2God will be with him there. If many roaring waves Of great Affliction roll Over his head: God so supports They cannot sink his Soul.
[6] 1Plunge him into the mire, Or water; God is neare: Cast him into the burning Fire; 2God will be with him there. If many roaring waves Of great Affliction roll Over his head: God so supports They cannot sink his Soul.