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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.
In Solitude Good Company.
TO be alone sometimes And want no Company Whilst men are Musing; this you'll say Is no great Rarity. But when we are alone To have Good Company, The best that ever man enjoyed, This is a Mystery.
TO be alone sometimes And want no Company Whil'st men are Musing; this you'll say Is no great Rarity. But when we are alone To have Good Company, The best that ever man enjoy'd, This is a Mystery.
How such a thing can be, Although Religion teach it, And many can discourse thereof, Yet Nature cannot reach it.
[1] Man's Nature sociable Delights in Company, Declines and dreadeth Solitude, And loves Society. Hence to be stripped of Friends, And to be left alone, 1Must needs be grievous in it self, A sore Affliction.
[1] MAn's Nature sociable Delights in Company, Declines and dreadeth Solitude, And loves Society. Hence to be stript of Friends, And to be left alone,