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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.
[8] Well: Friends may pity us And at our Sorrows grieve; They cannot always help: But Christ Can pity and relieve. This is the main support, And comfort of the Saints, That Jesus Christ them pitieth, when 1They pour out their complaints.
[8] Well: Friends may pitty us And at our Sorrows grieve; They cannot alwayes help: But Christ Can pitty and relieve. This is the main support, And comfort of the Saints, That Jesus Christ them pittieth, when 1They pour out their complaints.
[9] Friends sometimes stand aloof,1 And Brethren may forget us, Or strangers be unto our griefs; The World at nought may set us: But Jesus Christ regards us2 Even in our low estate; He minds us well, and leaves us not Forlorn and desolate.
[9] Friends sometimes stand aloof,1 And Bretheren may forget us, Or strangers be unto our griefs; The World at nought may set us: But Jesus Christ regards us2 Ev'n in our low estate; He mînds us well, and leaves us not Forlorn and desolate.
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