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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 10: Meditation X.
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.
Although Afflictions tan the skin,
Although Afflictions tanne the skin,
Such Saints are Beautiful within.
[1] 1How amiable is The face of suffering Saints, Where God thus quieteth their hearts And stilleth their complaints! Where 'tis their daily care, And earnest hearts desire, To love, and bless, and honour God In middest of the fire.
[1] 1HOw amiable is The face of suffering Saints, Where God thus quieteth their hearts And stilleth their complaints! Where 'tis their daily care, And earnest hearts desire, To love, and bless, and honour God In middest of the fire.