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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Shall not undo the godly Soul
That them bewails, resists and h•tes,
Nor need such question their estates.
[1] I May not here neglect Another case to mind, Wherewith some precious Souls to be Full sore aggrieved I find: A case calamitous, Beyond the help of man; For out of Satan's deadly gripe Christ only rescue can.
[1] I May not here neglect Another case to minde, Wherewith some precious Souls to be Full sore agriev'd I finde: A case calamitous, Beyond the help of man; For out of Satans deadly gripe Christ onely rescue can.
[2] Blasphemous, hellish thoughts Into his mind are cast Concerning God; which make him quake, And stand like one aghast. Imaginations black, And Fancies filthy-foul Are darted in with violence, Which stab him to the Soul.