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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
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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.
[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, 1Unite our hearts, appease our strife, Cease quarrels and complaints: Help us to pitty more, And pray for one another, To strive who shall in love outstrip And go beyond his Brother.
[7] This were a blessed strife; Thus ought we all to strive: Were this our strife; how would it make 1Souls, Towns, and Churches thrive. As many Shoulders make A heavy Burden light: So might our Burdens lightened be, Were but our Spirits right.