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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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Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 2: Meditation II.
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[4] It is in Mercy then That God chastiseth his, And lets them not Correction want When as they do amiss. They are in trouble now That he may give them rest,1 When as the Pit shall digged be For such as them oppressed.
[4] It is in Mercy then That God chastiseth his, And lets them not Correction want When as they do amiss. They are in trouble now That he may give them rest,1 When as the Pit shall digged be For such as them opprest.
- 1Psal. 94▪ 12, 13.
[5] All that Christ's Members are Must be made like their Head: 1He is a Bastard not a Child That's never chastened. God letteth some alone, (Leaves them to take their course) And by his Rod reclaims them not; They sin without remorse.
[5] All that Christ's Members are Must be made like their Head: 1He is a Bastard not a Childe That's never chastened. God letteth some alone, (Leaves them to take their course) And by his Rod reclaims them not; They sin without remorse.