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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.
[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.
[2] These are the Common-Lot Of all God's Children dear. Through many Sorrows they must pass The Lord that truly fear. There's no Calamity Doth unto thee befall, But such as common is to men;1 Yea to the best of all.
[2] These are the Common-Lot Of all God's Children dear. Through many Sorrows they must pass The Lord that truely fear. There's no Calamity Doth unto thee befall, But such as common is to men;1 Yea to the best of all.
[3] Though various are the ways And sufferings whereby God doth his Children exercise, Correct, and also try: Yet all must bear the Cross Before they wear the Crown;