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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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SONG III.
Another Dialogue or Combat between the Flesh and Spirit.
Another Dialogue or Combate between the Flesh and Spirit.
Flesh. [1 OH but I greatly fear, My sufferings are not such As Children's Nurture use to be, But that they differ much. They are too great and long (I fear) to stand with love: Such overwhelming strokes, me-thinks, Do rather hatred prove. [2] Were I a Child of God He would more gently deal: Nor would he always use the Rod, But sometimes help and heal. But I am day by day Afflicted very sore: My sufferings have been many years, And still are growing more.
Flesh. [1 OH but I greatly fear, My sufferings are not such As Childrens Nurture use to be, But that they differ much. They are too great and long (I fear) to stand with love: Such overwhelming strokes, me-thinks, Do rather hatred prove. [2] Were I a Childe of God He would more gently deal: Nor would he alwayes use the Rod, But sometimes help and heal. But I am day by day Afflicted very sore: My sufferings have been many years, And still are growing more.