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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.
[5] 1Then once for all we die, That die we may no more: But live in Bliss eternally The face of God before. Death is of Life the Gate: It is the Door whereby We enter shall into a state Of Immortality.
[6] This then our Comfort is, This is our Life in Death; To know our Soul shall be in Bliss When Death hath stopped our Breath. And that this Body vile,1 That now is laid in dust, And turned to Earth, within a while Be raised in Glory must.
[6] This then our Comfort is, This is our Life in Death; To know our Soul shall be in Bliss When Death hath stopt our Breath. And that this Body vile,1 That now is laid in dust, And turn'd to Earth, within a while Be rais'd in Glory must.