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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.
[2] That we not only are Encompassed with Foes: But have a treacherous Part within1 That doth with Satan close. That's ready to seduce And lead us into Evil, And on a sudden to betray Our Souls unto the Devil.
[2] That we not onely are Encompassed with Foes: But have a treacherous Part within1 That doth with Satan close. That's ready to seduce And lead us into Evil, And on a sudden to betray Our Souls unto the Devil.
[3] We pestered are with sin So long as here we live: Which makes us cry, From this vile death 1Who will deliverance give? Bodies of Sin and Death We carry to and fro: And carry must unto our grief, Whilst we are here below.
[3] We pestered are with sin So long as here we live: Which makes us cry, From this vile death 1Who will deliverance give? Bodies of Sin and Death We carry to and fro: And carry must unto our grief, Whil'st we are here below.
- 1Verse 24.