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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.
[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.
[5] Oh let it never be That Saints should Saints infest, And add unto each others grief, That are with grief opprest. This wisdom from above1 Comes not, but from beneath: And ill becometh those in whom The Spirit of Love doth breath.
- 1Jam. •.15.
[6] That Spirit of Love and Peace, Who dwells in all the Saints, 1Unite our hearts, appease our strife, Cease quarrels and complaints: Help us to pity more, And pray for one another, To strive who shall in love outstrip And go beyond his Brother.
[6] That Spirit of Love and Peace, Who dwells in all the Saints, 1