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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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Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 3: Meditation III.
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[6] Much Honey turns to Gall And Choleric excess; And too-too-much Prosperity Breeds Pride and Wantonness:1 Afflictions purge them out, Like bitter Aloe, Which, though unpleasant to the taste, Far wholsomer may be.
[6] Much Honey turns to Gall And Cholerick excess; And too-too-much Prosperity Breeds Pride and Wantonness:1 Afflictions purge them out, Like bitter Alöe, Which, though unpleasant to the taste, Far wholsomer may be.
- 1Deut. 32.15. Isa. 27.9. Heb. 12.1•, 11.
[7] Full Diet, dainty Fare, With Idleness and Ease1 Heap up bad Humours, and contract Many a foul Disease, To Soul, and Body too. Dangerous, and Troublesome; Which must be purged out in Time By some Catholicum.
[7] Full Diet, dainty Fare, With Idleness and Ease1 Heap up bad Humours, and contract Many a foul Disease, To Soul, and Body too. Dang'rous, and Troublesome; Which must be purged out in Time By some Catholicum.