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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] 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 house2 Him to Repentance brought, And then for Body and for Soul3 The Lord Salvation wrought.
[8] While Jonah's stubborn will1 Did over him prevaile It brought him down into the Deeps And Belly of the Whale. That fearful Prison house2 Him to Repentance brought, And then for Body and for Soul3 The Lord Salvation wrought.
- 1Jonah 1.
- 2Chap. 2.
- 3