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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.
[5] This makes him dread to pray, Or read, or meditate, Because such thoughts mix with his prayers As God, he knows, doth hate. For all these Blasphemies And thoughts that Hell suggests, He judgeth them his own hearts sins, Although he them detests.
[5] This makes him dread to pray, Or reade, or meditate, Because such thoughts mix with his prayers As God, he knows, doth hate. For all these Blasphemies And thoughts that Hell suggests, He judgeth them his own hearts sins, Although he them detests.
[6] Experience daily shows It may befall a Saint To be thus dogged with Hell's black Hounds Until he almost faint. And barely this to know, That ever any were Thus exercised that feared God, May mitigate thy fear.1
[6] Experience daily shews It may befall a Saint To be thus dogg'd with Hell's black Hounds Until he almost faint. And barely this to know, That ever any were Thus exercis'd that feared God, May mitigate thy fear.1
[7] It yields us some support To know we're not alone, But that through such a dismal way Some have before us gone. But for to come more near, And speak unto thy grief What in a few lines may be spoke, The answer is in brief;