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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.
SONG II.
[1] Though Liberty it self Is greatly to be sought; And they are happy that know how To use it as they ought; Especially whose hearts Esteem and highly prize And likewise carefully improve Their Spiritual Liberties.
[1] THough Liberty it self Is greatly to be sought; And they are happy that know how To use it as they ought; Especially whose hearts Esteem and highly prize And likewise carefully improve Their Spiritual Liberties.
[2] Yet when the Lord is pleased Such freedom to deny, He can another Freedom give Even in Captivity. When he our Will subdues, And helps us be content With his dispose, there's Liberty Even in Imprisonment.
[2] Yet when the Lord is pleas'd Such freedom to deny, He can another Freedom give Ev'n in Captivity. When he our Will subdues, And helps us be content With his dispose, there's Libertie Even in Imprisonment.
[3] Man's unsubdued Will1 Is a most heavy Chain: That man may walk at Liberty That can this freedom gain. When as the Will is brought Into Captivity Unto the holy Will of God; This is sweet Liberty.