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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 III.
[1] The Saints have never been To meet with God more free Then when they have been most deprived Of outward Liberty. When Banished, Confined, Imprisoned they have been: They have God's Presence more enjoyed, And more his glory seen.
[1] THe Saints have never been To meet with God more free Then when they have been most depriv'd Of outward Libertee. When Banished, Confined, Impris'ned they have been: They have God's Presence more enjoy'd, And more his glory seen.
[2] When Jacob fled from home Because of Esau's spite, And lay abroad i'ch'open Air1 Upon the Earth all night: He saw that wondrous Ladder, Whose top to Heaven raught, Which Jesus Christ God-Man, and our Salvation by him, taught.
[2] When Jacob fled from home Because of Esau's spight, And lay abroad i'ch'open Aire1 Upon the Earth all night: He saw that wondrous Ladder, Whose top to Heaven raught, Which Jesus Christ God-Man, and our Salvation by him, taught.
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