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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.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 3: Meditation III.
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.
[8] Strong Wine makes weak heads giddy Procuring Drunkenness: Long Peace and Plenty likewise breed1 Intemperance and Excess. We soon are Surfeited With strong delicious matter: And therefore God, who knows our frame, Mingleth our Wine with Water.
[8] Strong Wine makes weak heads giddy Procuring Drunkenness: Long Peace and Plenty likewise breed1 Intemperance and Excess. We soon are Surfeted With strong delicious matter: And therefore God, who knows our frame, Mingleth our Wine with Water.
[9] Afflictions are like Ballast In the' Bottom of a Ship; For though perhaps without the same We might more lightly skip: Yet every little puff Would quickly set us over, And sink us in the Ocean Sea No more for to recover.
[9] Afflictions are like Ballast I'th' Bottom of a Ship; For though perhaps without the same We might more lightly skip: Yet every little puff Would quickly set us over, And sink us in the Ocean Sea No more for to recover.
[10] 1Our Hearts are over-run Much like a fallow Field, Which must be broke and ploughed up Before it fruit can yield: