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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.
[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?
[3] Thy Wife, or Child, or Friend, They were but Blessings lent thee: They were the Lords both first and last;1 And doth not this content thee? May not the Lord require, When he sees fit, his own? Thou mayest be thankful unto him They were no sooner gone.
[3] Thy Wife, or Childe, or Friend, They were but Blessings lent thee: They were the Lords both first and last;1 And doth not this content thee? May not the Lord require, When he sees fit, his own? Thou may'st be thankfull unto him They were no sooner gone.