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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.
[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.
[3] And as he was with Christ So is he nigh to all (For Christ his sake) that call on him, In truth that on him call.1 And he hath promised To be with his always: And that he never will forsake2 Nor leave them all their days.
[3] And as he was with Christ So is he nigh to all (For Christ his sake) that call on him, In truth that on him call.1