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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.
[1] Unto this General Head We need not much to say, For all that went before doth tend Our Sorrows to allay. Yet forasmuch as Grief From various Causes springs; Nor is it possible to name Each thing that Sorrow brings:
[1] UNto this General Head We need not much to say, For all that went before doth tend Our Sorrows to allay. Yet forasmuch as Grief From various Causes springs; Nor is it possible to name Each thing that Sorrow brings:
[2] We'll spend a few leaves more Concerning Grief, the' Effect; That so we may apply a Salve, And no man's Sore neglect. If then thou art a Saint That languishest in Grief: God hath provided Cordials To yield thy Soul relief.
[2] Wee'll spend a few leaves more Concerning Grief, th' Effect; That so we may apply a Salve, And no man's Sore neglect. If then thou art a Saint That languishest in Grief: God hath provided Cordials To yield thy Soul relief.
[3] Thou must these Cordials know, And how to take and use them: Beware thou do not in a Pet Neglect, much less refuse them. God would not have us Blocks That nothing lay to heart: Nor would he have us mourn like those In Christ that have no part.
[3] Thou must these Cordials know, And how to take and use them: Beware thou do not in a Pett Neglect, much less refuse them. God would not have us Blocks That nothing lay to heart: Nor would he have us mourn like those In Christ that have no part.