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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.
[9] I can remember still That dismal Solitude; The horror of that Lonesomeness (And state of Widowhood) Wherein my Soul was once, From God estranged far:1 That was a wilderness indeed. Such only Lonesome are.
[9] I can remember still That dismal Solitude; The horrour of that Lonesomness (And state of Widowhood) Wherein my Soul was once, From God estranged farre:1 That was a wilderness indeed. Such onely Lonesome are.
[10] But he is not alone That hath the Trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, To keep him company. Such comforters as these1 Can cheer the Desolate: And make them sing for joy, who sit In solitary state.
[10] But he is not alone That hath the Trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, To keep him company. Such comforters as these1 Can chear the Desolate: And make them sing for joy, who sit In solitary state.