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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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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.
[6] Why shouldest thou think it strange1 To meet with fiery Trial? Or to be put upon the task Of serious Self-denial? Thou owest more to Christ, Who shed his dearest Blood, And bare God's Wrath, for to procure Thine Everlasting good.
[6] Why should'st thou think it strange1 To meet with fiery Triall? Or to be put upon the task Of serious Self-deniall? Thou owest more to Christ, Who shed his dearest Blood, And bare God's Wrath, for to procure Thine Everlasting good.
[7] The Son of God himself By whom the World was made1 Took up the Cross, endured Death, And so our Ransom paid. He had no need to die; But we had been undone: Unless that He our Punishment And Pain had undergone.
[8] He past through Sufferings1