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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 1: Meditation I.
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.
All Christians must be Sufferers
That would be Christ his Followers.
[1] All that resolve to be Christ's faithful Followers, Must be contented in this world1 To be great Sufferers. They must renounce themselves, And their own wills deny, Take up their Cross, and follow Christ Through Sufferings cheerfully.
[1] ALl that resolve to be Christ's faithful Followers, Must be contented in this world1 To be great Sufferers. They must renounce themselves, And their own wills deny, Take up their Cross, and follow Christ Through Sufferings chearfully.