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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.
[7] If God bestow such gifts On ••oody brutish men: 1Oh what great things hath he in store For his dear Children! No mortal eye hath seen, No Ear did ever hear, Nor Heart conceive, what Christ prepares For such as do him fear.
[7] If God bestow such gifts On ••oody brutish men: 1Oh what great things hath he in store For his dear Childeren! No mortal eye hath seen, No Ear did ever hear, Nor Heart conceive, what Christ prepares For such as do him fear.
[8] Earth's Treasures are but dung,1 And carnal Pleasures base, Unto those Joys the Saints enjoy Before Christ's Royal face. The richest Robes are Rags, And contemptible gear, Unto those bright and shining Robes2 The Saints in Glory wear.
[8] Earth's Treasures are but dung,1 And carnal Pleasures base, Unto those Joyes the Saints enjoy Before Christ's Royal face. The richest Robes are Rags, And contemptible geer, Unto those bright and shining Robes