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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.
SONG II.
[1] And now for such as are Of dearest Friends bereft, That in a solitary state Most desolate are left: Oh might I speak a word That might allay your grief, Instruct you how to bear your Cross, Or lend you some relief.
[1] ANd now for such as are Of dearest Friends bereft, That in a solitary state Most desolate are left: Oh might I speak a word That might allay your grief, Instruct you how to bear your Cross, Or lend you some relief.
[2] Suppose a Friend had lent thee A Stock at thy desire, To make thy best improvement of, Till he should it require. Wouldest think thy Fried unkind For taking of his own, When as in lending it at all Great Courtesy was shown?
[2] Suppose a Friend had lent thee A Stock at thy desire, To make thy best improvement of, Till he should it require. Would'st think thy Fried unkinde For taking of his own, When as in lending it at all Great Courtesie was shown?