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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.
[5] Thou hast not him to go to When sorrows thee aggrieve: 1The Comforter is far away That should thy Soul relieve. Thou hast offended God And grieved him full sore: 2And now he grieveth thee, let this Grieve and ashamed him thee more.
[5] Thou hast not him to go to When sorrows thee agrieve: 1The Comforter is far away That should thy Soul relieve. Thou hast offended God And grieved him full sore: 2And now he grieveth thee, let this Grieve and ashame him thee more.
[6] Couldest thou but lay to heart Thy sinful woeful state: It quickly would thine other griefs Assuage and mitigate. Oh get thy worldly grief Turned to godly sorrow. Mourn for thy sins, and put not off Repentance till to morrow.
[6] Could'st thou but lay to heart Thy sinful woful state: It quickly would thine other griefs Asswage and mitigate. Oh get thy worldly grief Turned to godly sorrow. Mourn for thy sins, and put not off Repentance till to morrow.