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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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Meditation IV.
[1] O Man of little faith! Behold the winged Fowls,1 The Ravens, Crows, and Cormorants, The Kites, the Hawks, the Owls, Also the numerous Doves Whose flocks make dark the Air▪ And tell me who for all this Crew Doth kindly food prepare.
[1] O Man of little faith! Behold the winged Fowls,1 The Ravens, Crows, and Cormorants, The Kites, the Hawks, the Owls, Also the numerous Doves Whose flocks make dark the Aire▪ And tell me who for all this Crew Doth kindly food prepare.
[2] The Heavenly Father's wise And wondrous Providence Gives unto all these Multitudes Their daily sustenance. Doth God take care of Fowls1 And hear the Ravens cry? And can he see his Saints in want And not their wants supply?