Meat out of the eater

Name: Meat out of the eater
Author: 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 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.

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705printed by S.G. Samuel Green for John Usher of Boston, 1670

208 p. ; (8vo) · 23k words · Evans 158 · Wing W2104

Title page typeset from the transcription.

In Confinement Liberty. › Song 1: SONG I.

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.

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[2] Come let us break their Bands¹ And cast their cords from us: Let's give the Reins unto our Lusts, And not be Bridled thus. This Liberty of theirs² The greatest Bondage is: For he's a Bondslave unto Sin That loves to do amiss.

1Psal. 2 3.
2John 8.34. Rom. 6.16.

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[3] He is a Prisoner¹ Unto his mortal Foe, Who leads him bound with Cords of sin Unto Eternal woe. Such Prisoners may enjoy External Liberty, And being under no restraint They run to Hell more free.

[3] He is a Prisoner¹ Unto his mortal Foe, Who leads him bound with Cords of sin Unto Eternal woe. Such Prisoners may enjoy External Libertie, And being under no restraint They run to Hell more free.

1Eph. 2.2.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705

Printer

S.G. Samuel Green

Bookseller

John Usher of Boston

Year

1670

Size

208 p. ; (8vo)

Words

22,987

Catalogue

Evans 158 · Wing W2104

Text

Evans-TCP N00104

Passages

585

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

SONG II.