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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
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Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 9: Meditation IX.
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[6] And though he be unworthy To look God in the face; Yet through the Merits of his Son1 He begs and hopes for Grace: Being right well assured That though the Lord chastise him; Yet will he not cast off his Soul, Nor utterly despise him.
[6] And though he be unworthy To look God in the face; Yet through the Merits of his Son1 He begs and hopes for Grace: Being right well assur'd That though the Lord chastise him; Yet will he not cast off his Soul, Nor utterly despise him.
- 1Heb. 4.15, 16. Job 19.25▪ 26 27. Lam 3.31, 32.
[7] But if by all his search He cannot find the cause For which the Lord afflicteth him, Or from his Soul withdraws: Yet he believeth, that For just and holy ends, To humble, purge, and better him The Lord Affliction sends.
[7] But if by all his search He cannot finde the cause For which the Lord afflicteth him, Or from his Soul withdraws: Yet he believeth, that For just and holy ends, To humble, purge, and better him The Lord Affliction sends.