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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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[9] For thus he threateneth; 1If that ye will not be By all my strokes reformed yet But still walk cross to me: Then will I also walk Contrary unto you In wrath and fury, and seven times More Plagues will on you throw.
- 1Verse 23, 24.
[10] Dear Brother, Christian Friend, Be wise for thine own ease, And do not wilfully thy God And Father mild displease. 1He loveth not to grieve, Nor crush the sons of men: Why shouldest thou love to anger him, Or for to grieve him then?
[10] Dear Brother, Christian Friend, Be wise for thine own ease, And do not wilfully thy God And Father milde displease. 1He loveth not to grieve, Nor crush the sons of men: Why should'st thou love to anger him, Or for to grieve him then?
[11] It may be thou hast been Some headstrong Bullock like▪ Kicking and spurning at the Rod, And running on the Pike. Now ••en bemoan thy self; And cry, Lord turn thou me, That have a stubborn sinner been, And turned I shall be.