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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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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.
SONG I.
[1] Thus far in general About Afflictions, Wherewith the Lord will exercise All whom he owns for sons. Now of particular Ails And Exercises great (Such as most commonly befall) We purpose to entreat.
[1] THus far in generall About Afflictions, Wherewith the Lord will exercise All whom he owns for sons. Now of particular Ailes And Exercises great (Such as most commonly befall) We purpose to entreat.
[2] 1The Spirit of a man Will many Griefs sustain: But who can bear a wounded Spirit? This is the greatest pain. First then for Spiritual Griefs, Temptations, and distresses, Wherewith the Devil keepeth down, And some good Souls depresses.
[2] 1The Spirit of a man Will many Griefs sustain: But who can bear a wounded Sp'rit? This is the greatest pain. First then for Spiritual Griefs, Temptations, and distresses, Wherewith the Devil keepeth down, And some good Souls depresses.
- 1Prov. 18.14.Pov. 18.14.