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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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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.
[6] Manasseh was a slave To Sin, and never free; 1Until his Foes had carried him Into Captivity: But being bound in Chains, He calls to mind his sins, Humbleth himself, and to bewail His former life begins.
[6] Manasseh was a slave To Sin, and never free; 1Untill his Foes had carried him Into Captivitie: But being bound in Chains, He calls to minde his sins, Humbleth himself, and to bewail His former life begins.
- 12 Chron. 3•.10.11, 12, 13, 15.
[7] His Prison was a place Of greatest Liberty: For from the bondage of his sins It helped to set him free. As Liberty abused Procured his Misery: So Bonds him humbled and prepared For blessed Liberty.
[7] His Prison was a place Of greatest Libertie: For from the bondage of his sins It helpt to set him free. As Liberty abus'd Procur'd his Misery: So Bonds him humbled and prepar'd For blessed Liberty.
[8] While Jonah's stubborn will1 Did over him prevail It brought him down into the Deeps And Belly of the Whale. That fearful Prison house