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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.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 2: Meditation II.
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.
Meditation II.
God doth in Mercy scourge his own
God doth in Mercy scourge his owne
In Wrath he others lets alone.
[1] IF in this narrow Path And way that is so strait 1You meet with Difficulties great▪ Be not disconsolate▪ The straitness of the way Betokeneth opposition, Afflictions, Dangers, Crosses, Snares In this our frail condition.
- 1•et. 4.