N00104:445
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.
Joy in Sorrow.
Can Joy and Sorrow meet That are so opposite? The one so Bitter, the other Sweet? What, can such Foes unite? What! meet in one small Heart! And lovingly agree! Join hands and strengthen one another▪ Doubtless it cannot be.
CAn Joy and Sorrow meet That are so opposite? The one so Bitter, th'other Sweet? What, can such Foes unite? What! meet in one small Heart! And lovingly agree! Joyn hands and strengthen one another▪ Doubtless it cannot be.
As Aaron's Serpent-Rod1 Rods of the Enchanters swallowed: So godly Sorrow eateth up, That Sorrow that's unhallowed. It worldly Sorrow kills: But helpeth Spiritual Joy. These two will strengthen one another, And not each other 'stroy.
As Aaron's Serpent-Rod1 Rods of th'Inchanters swallow'd: So godly Sorrow eateth up, That Sorrow that's unhallow'd. It worldly Sorrow kills: But helpeth Spiritual Joy. These two will strengthen one another, And not each other 'stroy.