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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.
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⟩Thou didst mine aid implore, And now it's at thy door. 2I am thy Surgeon, Do not thine Healer shun. Dost with thine heart embrace 3Both me and all my grace? Canst me thy Treasure make, And for thy Portion take? 4Dost thou thy self resign, And yieldest to be mine? Wouldest thou as willingly Be ruled as saved by me?