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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.
SONG X.
A Dialogue or Discourse between the Believing Soul and her Saviour.
Soul. OH Christ my grief is such, Because I love not much; As addeth to my sore, Because I grieve no more. ⟨image ?⟩Give me a broken heart, That may both bleed and smart, That I so often stray, That I no more obey. Oh make me love thee dearly, And trust in thee sincerely: And help me well to prove Mine interest in thy Love. That God Omnipotent Is freely-well-content To cancel all my debts, And all my sins forgets. O Christ let me be thine▪ And be thou wholly mine: Let me be thine entire; Be thou mine I desire.
Say. Ah poor distressed Soul So sad and sorrowful, That weakly dost believe And wouldst more strength receive; Behold at thy request I'm here full ready prest To save and succour thee; Fear not to come to me.1 ⟨p. 88⟩