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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.
[2] I thought my own condition Sometimes more sad then any: But now I see I have not felt One half so much as many. These Saints forementioned, It plainly doth appear, Have suffered more in one Months time, Then I have in a Year.
[3] Nay when I ponder well What Job did once endure: My Pains and mine Infirmities Are but Flea-bitings sure. The Lord was just, I know, In all that them befell: Both just and gracious toward me I may account him well.
[4] He hath not punished me1 So much as I deserve, That from his just Commandments So much and often swerve. And should be still afflict me Much more then yet he hath: He will not wrong me,2 who deserve His everlasting Wrath.
[4] He hath not punish'd me1 So much as I deserve, That from his just Commandements So much and often swerve. And should be still afflict me Much more then yet he hath: He will not wrong me,2 who deserve His everlasting Wrath.
- 1Job 1•.6.
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