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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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[9] Some haply here will say; If Saints of such renown1 Have been so foiled, and to the ground In time of Trial thrown; What will become of me, That am so weak and frail? How shall I stand, when violent Temptations me assail?
[9] Some haply here will say; If Saints of such renown1 Have been so foil'd, and to the ground In time of Triall thrown; What will become of me, That am so weak and frail? How shall I stand, when violent Temptations me assail?
- 1Obi.
[10] Though God sometimes permit1 The strongest Saints to fall, To stain the glory of all Flesh, And to awaken all: Yet let not weak ones faint, Nor be discouraged, Who feel their wants and weaknesses, And flee to Christ their Head.
- 1Sol.
[11] 1For Christ hath strength enough: Do thou on him depend, And he will make thee stand in storms, And hold out to the end. For in our weakness great Christ's strength doth more appear: We never are so safe, as when We get to him most near.