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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.
[4] That when they p•ss through fire Or water, he'll be there:1 The fire it shall not burn, nor floods Them drown, 'cause he is near. He dwells i'th'burning Bush.2 To see the Fire so blaze, And yet the Bush keep unconsumed, Good Moses did amaze.
[4] That when they p•ss through fire Or water, hee'll be there:1 The fire it shall not burn, nor floods Them drown, 'cause he is neare. He dwells i'th'burning Bush.2 To see the Fire so blaze, And yet the Bush keep unconsum'd, Good Moses did amaze.
[5] Affliction, though a fire, God's Saints cannot devour; Because the Lord dwells in the Bush, And keeps it by his Power. The Lord is present still, And maketh his abode With all true Saints; such Company Hath every Child of God.
[5] Affliction, though a fire, God's Saints cannot devour; Because the Lord dwells in the Bush, And keeps it by his Power. The Lord is present still, And maketh his aboad With all true Saints; such Company Hath every Childe of God.