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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.
Life in Deaths.
What Mystery is this To seek for Life in Death The great Destroyer of the Sons Of Adam and of Seth? Can Death beget sweet Life? Can such an Honey-comb, So sweet and precious, come forth Of Death's devouring Womb?
WHat Mystery is this To seek for Life in Death The great Destroyer of the Sons Of Adam and of Seth? Can Death beget sweet Life? Can such an Honey-comb, So sweet and precious, come forth Of Death's devouring Womb?
Yes: Christ hath broke the Teeth And taken away the Sting Of Cruel Death; that Death is now Become another thing. It is a Messenger Sent for to fetch us home Unto our Father's Royal House, Whither all Saints must come.
Yes: Christ hath broke the Teeth And ta'ne away the Sting Of Cruel Death; that Death is now Become another thing. It is a Messenger Sent for to fetch us home Vnto our Father's Royal House, Whither all Saints must come.
It is a Bridge, whereby We pass to Heavenly Rest, Out of the Sorrows of this world Wherewith we are oppressed. ⟨p. 181⟩