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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.
[4] Ah woeful Liberty! To such as it abuse; Which leads them to Captivity, Who their own Bondage choose.1 I rather had be bound With Fetters made of Brass, Then to enjoy my Liberty And be at such a pass.
[4] Ah wofull Liberty! To such as it abuse; Which leads them to Captivity, Who their own Bondage chuse.1 I rather had be bound With Fetters made of Brass, Then to enjoy my Liberty And be at such a pass.
[5] 1God bindeth some in Chains, And in Afflictions Cords, And by these Bands, unto their Souls More Liberty affords. Who would not be in thrall, Soul-Liberty to gain, Rather then Sins and Satan's thrall, And Captive to remain?
[5] 1God bindeth some in Chains, And in Afflictions Cords, And by these Bands, unto their Souls More Libertie affords. Who would not be in thrall, Soul-Liberty to gain, Rather then Sins and Satan's thrall, And Captive to remain?