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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.
[1] That Eminent Apostle And holy Martyr Paul, That laboured more for Jesus Christ, And suffered more then All, When as his race was run And life almost laid down For Christ: Henceforth, saith he,1 there is Laid up for me a Crown,
[1] THat Eminent Apostle And holy Martyr Paul, That laboured more for Jesus Christ, And suffered more then All, When as his race was run And life almost laid down For Christ: Henceforth, saith he,1 there is Laid up for me a Crown,
[2] Which Christ that Righteous Judge Shall give to me above: And unto all, as well as me, That his Appearing love. Christ Jesus at that day Will all Believers own:1 And all their faithful Services And Patient Sufferings crown.
[3] Not only such as have For Jesus shed their Blood; 1