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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 9: Meditation IX.
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.
[13] To God that smiteth him He strives to get more near. He will not cease to pray,1 although God seem to stop his ear. Though God hath long delayed To answer his request, Yet will he seek, and never cease, Whilst life is in his breast.
[13] To God that smiteth him He strives to get more near. He will not cease to pray,1 although God seem to stop his ear. Though God hath long delay'd To answer his request, Yet will he seek, and never cease, Whil'st life is in his brest.
- 1Psa. 88.1.2 9 13. Psa•. 42.7, 8, 9.
[14] He waiteth patiently1 Until deliverance come, And will not use dishonest means2 To shun what's troublesome. He hates all sinful sleights To get his Cross from under: He will not break his Bonds,3 but stay Till God them out asunder.
[14] He waiteth patiently1 Untill deliverance come, And will not use dishonest means2 To shun what's troublesome. He hates all sinful sleights To get his Cross from under: He will not break his Bonds,