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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.
[2] 1Our Ignorance shall cease; So shall our Unbelief: Our Passions shall no longer be A cause of daily grief. Against God's Providence Our hearts no more shall swell: Nor these our unsubdued Wills Against his Will rebel.
[2] 1Our Ignorance shall cease; So shall our Unbelief: Our Passions shall no longer be A cause of daily grief. Against God's Providence Our hearts no more shall swell: Nor these our unsubdued Wills Against his Will rebell.
[3] Our Senses shall no longer Be inlets unto Sin: Nor shall there be an home-bred Thief To let his Comrades in. God, whom we here offend And injure every day In thought, word, deed, we shall no more Offend him then for ay.
[4] During this mortal life We walk in midst of Snares, And we are apt to be surprised And caught at unawares. Our subtle Enemy1 Us every hour besets, Seeks to allure us by his Baits Into his deadly Nets.
[4] During this mortal life We walk in midst of Snares, And we are apt to be surpriz'd And caught at unawares. Our subtile Enemy