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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.
Strength in Weakness.
That weak ones may grow strong We very often see: But Strength in Weakness to behold, This is a Novelty.
THat weak ones may grow strong We very often see: But Strength in Weakness to behold, This is a Noveltie.
To see a Weak man Strong, And Strongest when most Weak; To see the Strong through Weakness fall And all their bones to break: This is a Mystery A Christian Paradox; But this ensuing little Key The Cabinet unlocks.
SONG I.
[1] Man's Strength mere Weakness is, As frail as Venice glass: 1And all his Excellency like The flower upon the grass. Adam in Paradise, And in his perfect state,