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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] This World's the Vale of Tears:1 We must not look to be, Whilst we are clothed with sinful Flesh, From griefs and sorrows free. Here Grief and Joy take turns: Hereafter Grief shall cease;2 And in the room thereof shall come Eternal Joy and Peace.
[1] THis World's the Vale of Tears:1 We must not look to be, Whilst we are cloth'd with sinful Flesh, From griefs and sorrows free. Here Grief and Joy take turns: Hereafter Grief shall cease;2 And in the room thereof shall come Eternal Joy and Peace.
[2] If for a little moment1 God seem to frown upon thee: With Everlasting kindnesses He will have mercy on thee. Our time of suffering here Is but a little while: And then his frown, that makes thee sad, Will turn into a smile.
[2] If for a little moment1 God seem to frown upon thee: With Everlasting kindnesses He will have mercy on thee. Our time of suff'ring here Is but a little while: And then his frown, that makes thee sad, Will turn into a smile.