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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.
[18] The longer God afflicts him,1 The better he is for it: Love's Holiness the more, loath's sin And learneth to abhor it. The more he is bereft And stripped of outward things: The less he dotes on these wild Fowl That take them to their wings.
[18] The longer God afflicts him,1 The better he is for it: Love's Holiness the more, loath's sin And learneth to abhor it. The more he is bereft And stript of outward things: The less he dotes on these wilde Fowl That take them to their wings.
[19] When Creature-comforts fail; When sorrows him surround, He takes the faster hold of God In whom true Comfort's found. When Conduit-pipes are stopped, When Streams are vanished: The more he to the Fountain hastes, And lives at the Well-head.
[19] When Creature-comforts fail; When sorrows him surround, He takes the faster hold of God In whom true Comfort's found. When Conduit-pipes are stopt, When Streams are vanished: The more he to the Fountain hastes, And lives at the Well-head.
[20] Thus David comforted