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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
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[4] I would not for this world, Were it a world of Gold, (Yea for a thousand times as much, And more then can be told) I would not Rules prescribe And unto thee commend, And yet my self be negligent Those Rules for to attend.
[5] It is my daily Prayer, Lord let me never teach That unto others which my self Have little care to reach. I have not told thee Tales Of things unseen, unfelt, But speak them from Experience; Believe it how thou wilt.
[6] Yet I shall tell the Truth, And nothing from thee keep; Before I wrote this sentence out I sat down twice to weep Tears of remorse and sorrow Because I am so poor In these rich graces, and because I have attained no more.
[6] Yet I shall tell the Truth, And nothing from thee keep; Before I wrote this sentence out I sat down twice to weep Tears of remorse and sorrow Because I am so poore In these rich graces, and because I have attain'd no more.
[7] That having been so long A Scholar in this School, I have so little progress made, And been so great a fool. But I shall say no more, But pass from this discourse. My weeping tears do blind mine eyes, And me thereto enforce.