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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.
[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.
- 2Heb. 13.3.
[3] They cannot choose but mourn With such as mourners be: And be afflicted too with those1 Whom they afflicted see. Christ gives them tender hearts, Therefore they fellow-feel: They pity, pray for, comfort them, And seek each others weal.
[3] They cannot chuse but mourn With such as mourners be: And be afflicted too with those1