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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.
[3] Poor Souls! I pity you, And do your case bemoan: But peace to you I may not speak, For God himself speaks none. 1There is no peace, saith God, To the' wicked when distressed: But they are like the troubled Sea Which boils and cannot rest.
[3] Poor Souls! I pitty you, And do your case bemoan: But peace to you I may not speak, For God himself speaks none. 1There is no peace, saith God, To th' wicked when distrest: But they are like the troubled Sea Which boils and cannot rest.
[4] Oh that the Lord himself, Who now doth thee chastise, And makes thee sad, would waken thee And open thy blind eyes! That God would help thee grieve For what should grieve thee most! 1That thou a wretched sinner art, That thou thy God hast lost.
[4] Oh that the Lord himself, Who now doth thee chastise, And makes thee sad, would waken thee And open thy blinde eyes! That God would help thee grieve For what should grieve thee most! 1That thou a wretched sinner art, That thou thy God hast lost.
- 1Jer. 3.13, •1.