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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.
[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.
[3] 1Moses i'th'Wilderness, During his Banishment, Meets with the God of Israel, And is to Israel sent To carry welcome news Of their deliverance, And that the Lord would lead them forth To their Inheritance.