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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.
[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.2
- 1Rom. 8.7, 8. Psal. 119.45, 47. 2 Cor. •0.5.
- 2Psal. 119.32.
[4] Let but the Will be broke,1 Its Tyranny undone, And other Bands that us restrain Will quickly be as none. For then the Soul applies It self to get that good Thereby, which God intends, and Christ Hath purchased with his Blood.
[4] Let but the Will be broke,1 Its Tyranny undone, And other Bands that us restrain Will quickly be as none. For then the Soul applies It self to get that good Thereby, which God intends, and Christ Hath purchas'd with his Blood.