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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.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 4: Meditation IV.
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.
[4] Burning and Cutting 'bide, Hunger and Thirst endure Thou wilt, thy Body from Grim Death, Or Sickness to recur: Thy Soul is much more worth, And its Salvation dear; Why then what may Soul-health procure Shouldest thou refuse to bear?
[4] Burning and Cutting 'bide, Hunger and Thirst endure Thou wilt, thy Body from Grim Death, Or Sickness to recure: Thy Soul is much more worth, And its Salvation dear; Why then what may Soul-health procure Should'st thou refuse to bear?
[5] Christ never flattered thee, Nor promised Carnal Ease, Nor worldly Honour, Pleasure, Gain, Security, o• Peace. He told the worst at first, (It was thine A, B, C) 1That every one must bear the Cross That would his Follower be.
[5] Christ never flattered thee, Nor promis'd Carnal Ease, Nor worldly Honour, Pleasure, Gain, Security, o• Peace. He told the worst at first, (It was thine A, B, C) 1That every one must bear the Cross That would his Follower be.
- 1Ma•. 16.24.
[6] Why shouldest thou think it strange1