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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] For though we mourn for sin. And watch, and strive and fight: Yet is our weakness often foiled By Satan's subtle sleight. This is a heaviness, A Death unto the Saints, 1Whereof the best while here on Earth Make sorrowful complaints.
[5] For though we mourn for sin. And watch, and strive and fight: Yet is our weakness often foil'd By Satan's subtile sleight. This is a heaviness, A Death unto the Saints, 1Whereof the best while here on Earth Make sorrowful complaints.
[6] Oh what a glorious thing In all true Christians eyes Would full deliverance be from Sin▪1 They would this freedom prize More then the richest Mines, Or most resplendent Gems: They would prefer it far before Sceptres and Diadems.
[6] Oh what a glorious thing In all true Christians eyes Would full deliverance be from Sin▪1 They would this freedom prize More then the richest Mynes, Or most resplendent Gems: They would prefer it far before Scepters and Diadems.
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