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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.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 3: Meditation III.
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] 1These are God's Fining-Pot, Wherein he melts his Gold, Consumes the dross and maketh it 2More lovely to behold. These are his Fullers Soap To wash our spots away, That being thus refined and washed Him glorify we may.
[4] 1These are God's Fining-Pot, Wherein he melts his Gold, Consumes the dross and maketh it 2More lovely to behold. These are his Fullers Sope To wash our spots away, That being thus refin'd and wash'd Him glorifie we may.
[5] As sharpest Winter Frosts Do clarify the Air, And cleanse our Blood, soften the Earth And it for Seed prepare, Making it fruitfuller: So do Afflictions sore 1Correct the rankness of our hearts, Cleanse, and subdue them more.
[5] As sharpest Winter Frosts Do clarifie the Aire, And cleanse our Blood, soften the Earth And it for Seed prepare, Making it fruitfuller: So do Afflictions sore 1