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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.
SONG III.
[1] Whilst we are here on Earth We're dying every day:1 Each day brings some new woe or grief Whilst we are clothed with Clay. We dwell in midst of Deaths And Death amidst us dwells, As too too well appeareth by These daily doleful Knells.
[1] WHil'st we are here on Earth We're dying every day:1 Each day brings some new woe or grief Whil'st we are cloth'd with Clay. We dwell in midst of Deaths And Death amidst us dwells, As too too well appeareth by These daily doleful Knells.
[2] Now one dear Friend departs, Ere long another goes: Whose turn comes next, or mine or thine, Or whose, God only knows. Thus we are oft constrained The pains of Death to 'bide:1 For Death doth often wound our heart Through one or other's side.
[2] Now one dear Friend departs, E're long another goes: Whose turn comes next, or mine or thine, Or whose, God onely knows. Thus we are oft constrain'd The pains of Death to 'bide: