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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.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 4: Meditation IV.
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.
The fourth by various Arguments
Strives to beat down all Discontents,
And overcome Discouragements.
[1] Since then our gracious God And Father that's above For such great Ends useth his Rod In Faithfulness and Love:1 Why shouldest thou once repine, Or murmur at the Cross, Impatient man? without such blows Thy Soul would suffer loss.
[1] SInce then our gracious God And Father that's above For such great Ends useth his Rod In Faithfulness and Love:1 Why should'st thou once repine, Or murmure at the Cross, Impatient man? without such blows Thy Soul would suffer loss.