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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.
[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?
[8] Convert thy Sorrow's stream Into the Channel right: 1And chiefly mourn because thou hast Done evil in his sight. Thus into godly sorrow Thy worldly sorrow turn, And God will turn away his wrath When thus he sees thee mourn.
[9] As oftentimes we see In some acute Disease, To cut a Vein and let him Blood Will give him present ease: Right so doth godly sorrow, The bleeding of the Heart, Assuage the most heart-killing Grief, And wondrous ease impart.