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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.
[1] Though Christ were never sick, Yet sure he under-went Such piercing bitter pains,1 as were More then equivalent: And by his Sufferings He took away the sting2 Of all our Sufferings, Sickness, Pain, And every evil thing.
[1] THough Christ were never sick, Yet sure he under-went Such piercing bitter pains,1 as were More then equivalent: And by his Sufferings He took away the sting2 Of all our Sufferings, Sickness, Pain, And every evil thing.
[2] Yea he them sanctified By virtue of his Blood, That they might as effectual Means1 Promote our Spiritual Good. For he knew how to make Trouble the way to Peace, Sickness the way to soundest Health, And Pain the way to Ease.
[2] Yea he them sanctify'd By virtue of his Blood, That they might as effectual Means1 Promote our Spiritual Good. For he knew how to make Trouble the way to Peace, Sickness the way to soundest Health, And Pain the way to Ease.