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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.
[6] If this Affliction be 1An evil bitter thing: Oh what a bitter thing is Sin, That doth Affliction bring? More evil is the Cause Then the Effect can be: 2For God doth punish less by far Then thine iniquity.
[6] If this Affliction be 1An evil bitter thing: Oh what a bitter thing is Sin, That doth Affliction bring? More evil is the Cause Then the Effect can be: 2For God doth punish less by far Then thine iniquitie.
[7] Is it a bitter thing To be in Heaviness? What is it then to grieve the Lord, 1And with my sins to press? To wrong a loving Father? Provoke a gracious God (Who takes no pleasure in our smart) To whip me with his Rod?