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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.
[4] Restoreth us to life,1 Createth us anew, Enableth us to do what's good And evil to eschew▪ But still he keeps the Stock2 Of grace in his own hand, And hath not left it unto us To be at our command.
- 1Eph. 2.5, 6, 1•.
- 2John 15▪4, 5.
[5] 1The strongest Saints have need Of daily fresh supplies: And Christ will teach them where their strength And all their power lies. Unless the Sun do shine, Soon vanisheth the Beam: Unless the Fountain feed it still, Soon dried up is the Stream.
[5] 1The strongest Saints have need Of daily fresh supplies: And Christ will teach them where their strength And all their power lies. Unless the Sun do shine, Soon vanisheth the Beam: Unless the Fountain feed it still, Soon dry'd up is the Stream.