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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.
[3] 1Most Patient holy Job Was broken out all o'er With painful boils from head to foot Loathsome, and grievous sore. What strange Extremities Befell this precious Saint 2His Friends astonishment declares, So doth his own complaint.
[3] 1Most Patient holy Job Was broken out all o're With painful boils from head to foot Loathsome, and grievous sore. What strange Extremities Befell this precious Saint 2His Friends astonishment declares, So doth his own complaint.
- 1Job 2.7, 8.
- 2Chap. 2.12, 13.
[4] His Visage was so marred Familiars knew him not. 1His stiffened Garment girt him like The Collar of his Coat With running of his Sores: His bowels boiled within: His bones were burnt with fervent heat 2And clave unto his skin.
[4] His Visage was so marr'd Familiars knew him not. 1His stiffened Garment girt him like The Collar of his Coat With running of his Sores: His bowels boil'd within: His bones were burnt with fervent heat