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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.
[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 Whom they afflicted see. Christ gives them tender hearts, Therefore they fellow-feel: They pitty, pray for, comfort them, And seek each others weal.
[4] This is a Comfort then To Saints in misery, To have such sweet Companions Of their Calamity. That when they are in sorrow They sorrow not alone: But meet with some that heartily Their Miseries bemoan.
[5] Oh let it never be That Saints should Saints infest, And add unto each others grief, That are with grief oppressed. This wisdom from above1 Comes not, but from beneath: And ill becometh those in whom The Spirit of Love doth breath.