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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.
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[16] He rather chose to wait Till God should plead his Cause, And of his Enemy him avenge, Then for to break God's Laws. Thus every Saint will rather 1Choose Suffering, then to Sin: He will not God offend Self-ease or Safety for to win.
[16] He rather chose to wait Till God should plead his Cause, And of his Enemy him avenge, Then for to break God's Laws. Thus every Saint will rather 1Chuse Suffering, then to Sin: He will not God offend Self-ease or Safety for to win.
[17] 1But if through Humane frailty, And over-bearing power Of strong Temptation, he do swerve And fall in the' evil hour: (As sometimes Peter did) 2It grieveth him full sore, He weeps and mourns, repents, returns, Grows stronger then before.
[17] 1But if through Humane frailty, And over-bearing power Of strong Temptation, he do swerve And fall i'th' evil hour: (As sometimes Peter did) 2It grieveth him full sore, He weeps and mourns, repents, returns, Grows stronger then before.