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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.
[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.
[4] Hast thou a part in God? Canst him thy Father call?1 Assure thy self thou hast a Friend That doth surmount them all. This Friend doth still remain,2 When other Friends are gone: Therefore thou needest not to mourn As if thou wert undone.
- 1John 20.17.
- 2Psal. •7.10. & 102.27.