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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
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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] 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, 1Must needs be grievous in it self, A sore Affliction.
[2] But bitter though it be, God's Presence can allay The Bitterness of Solitude, And take it quite away. Our Sav•our tells the Twelve, You all desert me w•ll:1 Yet I am not alone, because The Father's wi•h me still.
[2] But bitter though it be, God's Presence can allay The Bitterness of Solitude, And take it quite away. Our Sav•our tells the Twelve, You all desert me w•ll:1 Yet I am not alone, b•cause The Father's wi•h me still.