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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.
Christum cum sanctis—
[1] IT is an ease in Grief To have Copartners: It yields some comfort and relief T' have Fellow-sufferers. Especially to have Such as our case bemoan, As lay to heart our sorrows, and Under our burden groan.
[1] IT is an ease in Grief To have Coparteners: It yields some comfort and relief T' have Fellow-sufferers. Especially to have Such as our case bemoan, As lay to heart our sorrows, and Under our burden groan.
[2] 1The Saints all make one Body, Have Union with one Head; Are acted by one Spirit, and By him are quickened. 2Hence then they cannot choose But feel each others smart, Their Burden bear, lament their case, And in their woes take part,
[2] 1The Saints all make one Body, Have Union with one Head; Are acted by one Spirit, and By him are quickened. 2Hence then they cannot chuse But feel each others smart, Their Burden bear, lament their case, And in their woes take part,
- 1Ephes. 4.4, 5▪6.