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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.
[7] Oh glorious Privilege Of such as God do fear! 1Though other Friends forsake them, yet The Lord is always near. Christ holds them in his hand, 2And none shall pluck them out: The Father, who is more then all, Them holds; they need not doubt.
[7] Oh glorious Priviledge Of such as God do fear! 1Though other Friends forsake them, yet The Lord is alwayes near. Christ holds them in his hand, 2And none shall pluck them out: The Father, who is more then all, Them holds; they need not doubt.
[8] They dwell in Solitude, Are in a lonely case, That have no interest in this God, Nor comfort from his Grace. For such poor Souls as these My heart could even bleed: For when their Creature-comforts fail, They're left alone indeed.
[8] They dwell in Solitude, Are in a lonely case, That have no int'rest in this God, Nor comfort from his Grace. For such poor Souls as these My heart could even bleed: For when their Creature-comforts fail, They're left alone indeed.