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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.
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, 2When left of God unto himself▪ Could soon degenerate
[1] MAn's Strength meer 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, 2When left of God unto himself▪ Could soon degenerate
[2] He that was strong at first Immediately grew weak: And let the stock of Grace run out, Like vessels that do leak. Hence we are all made weak,1