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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.
[9] Be not discouraged; God will not them impute To thee, but unto him who doth Those poisoned Arrows shoot. But, oh thou wilt complain, 1My heart is tinder-like As prone and ready to take fire, As Satan is to strike.
[9] Be not discouraged; God will not them impute To thee, but unto him who do'th Those poisoned Arrows shoot. But, oh thou wilt complain, 1My heart is tinder-like As prone and ready to take fire, As Satan is to strike.
[10] Well, let it humble thee To feel a treacherous part A sinful Self; a wicked Flesh Remaining in thy heart. Yet for thy comfort know, Thou hast not lost the field, So long as thou dost sin resist, And strivest not to yield.
[10] Well, let it humble thee To feel a treacherous part A sinful Self; a wicked Flesh Remaining in thy heart. Yet for thy comfort know, Thou hast not lost the field, So long as thou do'st sin resist, And strivest not to yield.
[11] Are wicked thoughts thy load 1And heavy burden still, From which thou longest to be freed