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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
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Meditation I.
[1] OF all Afflictions that The outward man oppress, None are more grievous to endure1 Then Pains and Sicknesses; Especially if great, And long continuing: Oh what vexation to the Flesh, And Anguish do they bring:
[2] Yet may such anguish great Befall a child of God: Not from an Enemy's wrath, but from His gentle Father's Rod. God chasteneth his in love1 Even when he seems severe, Exempting not from smarting stripes Those whom he counts most dear.
[2] Yet may such anguish great Befall a childe of God: Not from an Enemie's wrath, but from His gentle Father's Rod. God chasteneth his in love1 Ev'n when he seems severe, Exempting not from smarting stripes Those whom he counts most dear.