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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 1: Meditation I.
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.
[2] Not only lighter Griefs 1This Cross of ours implies: But, when the Lord us calls thereto, Greatest Extremities. This must be taken up, (Willingly undergone) For Christ's dear sake, who suffered more For our Redemption.
[2] Not onely lighter Griefs 1This Cross of ours implies: But, when the Lord us calls thereto, Greatest Extremities. This must be taken up, (Willingly undergone) For Christ's dear sake, who suffered more For our Redemption.
[3] The Christian that expects An Earthly Paradise When Christ bids his take up the Cross And bear it, is unwise. We must not on the knee Be alway dandled, Nor must we think to ride to Heaven Upon a Feather-bed.
[4] Our way to Heavenly Rest Is all against the stream; We must not sail with Wind and Tide As too too many dream: But row against them both And many Storms endure; Till we arrive at that sweet Port Where Saints shall rest secure.