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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.
[3] Those that for doing well, For keeping Christ's Commands, For bearing witness to his Truth Suffer Reproach or Bands,1 Or any other Pain To keep their Conscience pure; Such of a glorious Recompense And rich Reward are sure.
[3] Those that for doing well, For keeping Christ's Commands, For bearing witness to his Truth Suffer Reproach or Bands,1 Or any other Pain To keep their Conscience pure; Such of a glorious Recompence And rich Reward are sure.
[4] Those that are persecuted Because of Righteousness, Are Blessed ones, saith Christ,1 for they Heaven's Kingdom shall possess. And Blest are ye whom men Revile and persecute, To whom for my sake heinous Crimes They wrongfully impute
[4] Those that are persecuted Because of Righteousness, Are Blessed ones, saith Christ,1 for they Heav'ns Kingdom shall possess. And Blest are ye whom men Revile and persecute, To whom for my sake heinous Crimes They wrongfully impute
- 1Mat. 5.10, 11, 1•.