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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.
Sick mens Health.
For Sick men to be well, For those that are in pain To find some ease, recover strength, And to wax whole again (By Means or else without) This is no Novelty: But to be sick and well at once, This is a Mystery.
FOr Sick men to be well, For those that are in pain To finde some ease, recover strength, And to wax whole again (By Means or else without) This is no Novelty: But to be sick and well at once, This is a Mystery.
And for our Sicknesses To be a Salve to heal. Our deadly Sores, a sovereign Balm For to procure our weal; This is a Paradox, Hard to be understood: But these discourses following▪ Explain, and make it good.
And for our Sicknesses To be a Salve to heal. Our deadly Sores, a soveraign Balm For to procure our weal; This is a Paradox, Hard to be understood: But these discourses following▪ Explain, and make it good.
I shall not intermeddle With the Physicians Art: Nor Medicines prescribe, which may Relieve thy Body's smart.