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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.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 3: Meditation III.
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.
For which the Lord Affliction sends.
[1] God doth chastise his own In love, their Souls to save: And lets them not run wild▪ with them That no Correction have. Now as the Rod restrains1 From posting down to Hell: So by the same God doth excite And teach us to do well.
[1] GOd doth chastise his own In love, their Souls to save: And lets them not run wilde▪ with them That no Correction have. Now as the Rod restrains1 From posting down to Hell: So by the same God doth excite And teach us to do well.
[2] Affliction is Christ's School1 Wherein he teacheth his To know and do their Duty, and To mend what is amiss. For though Afflictions may Unto the Flesh be painful: David and other Saints of God Have found them very gainful.