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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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[12] If Ephraim thus repent And pray; God quickly hears,1 Embraceth him as his dear Child, And wipes away his tears. God listeneth for to hear The voice of true returners, And is most ready to speak peace To broken-hearted mourners.
[12] If Ephraim thus repent And pray; God quickly hears,1 Embraceth him as his dear Childe, And wipes away his tears. God listeneth for to hear The voice of true returners, And is most ready to speak peace To broken-hearted mourners.
[13] Oh let New-England turn, When gentler Warning's given: Lest by our sins the Lord to use Severity be driven. It will be to our cost To put him thereupon: Oh therefore let's repent in time, Before we be undone.
[14] Incorrigibleness God's Anger will increase: True Penitence, and Faith in Christ, This anger will appease; And nothing else can do't. Lord give us hearts to say, Turn us to thee,1 and all our sins Purge out and wash away.