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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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[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.
[8] And though he cannot say,1 I have at random run, Or wickedly by some known sin Away from God have gone:2 Yet so much sin he sees Both in his heart and ways, As God may judge it meet therefore To scourge him all his days.
[8] And though he cannot say,1 I have at random run, Or wickedly by some known sin Away from God have gon:2 Yet so much sin he sees Both in his heart and wayes, As God may judge it meet therefore To scourge him all his dayes.
- 1Job 10.2, 7.
- 2Job 7.•0 Job 9.2, 3.